I think point 3 is completely off. That's not cherry-picking, that's comparing apples to oranges, those generated Makefiles are not meant to be readable, if you want to compare, look at configure.ac and Makefile.am. I also dislike CMake, but just saying it sucks is poor argumentation. Finally, in the title Ninja and Meson are mentioned, just to be completely ignored. I'm having a great experience with Meson, I would like to learn how the Zig build system is better than it, this piece unfortunately does not provide that.