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I do not want it to fetch dependencies. I download those once and include it as a copy per project. Update on on-need basis. Over the years I have accumulated enough. To start new project all I have to do is - clone template directory and I am ready to go.

This is true for almost all projects but things are getting better. I use CPM for a couple of years now and get the experience desired

https://github.com/cpm-cmake/CPM.cmake

> CMake doesn't fetch your dependencies for you and ensure they're the version that your code is compatible with.

That’s a little too harsh. You can certainly make it do that via a combination of git tags (to build from source) and CMake modules/Find*, but yes, it’s much more cumbersome than cargo/npm/go