CMake is "too complicated" and "you need to be an expert". Understandable, I suppose. There are certainly specific things in CMake which are pretty terrible, like the add_custom_command/add_custom_target dance, but from the perspective of someone who has had to become an expert in it (via ROS/catkin), I would be unlikely to give it up. There's just way too much stuff it gives you for free, especially when it comes to things like packaging, testing, etc.
CMake is "too complicated" and "you need to be an expert". Understandable, I suppose. There are certainly specific things in CMake which are pretty terrible, like the add_custom_command/add_custom_target dance, but from the perspective of someone who has had to become an expert in it (via ROS/catkin), I would be unlikely to give it up. There's just way too much stuff it gives you for free, especially when it comes to things like packaging, testing, etc.