Every time I have to deal with meson based projects, it needs incredible amount of hacks to build a project if you want to build it in slightly customized way o

Every time I have to deal with meson based projects, it needs incredible amount of hacks to build a project if you want to build it in slightly customized way or for bit more different platform. Meson is too smart and often tells you "no you can't do that", which can't be overridden without patching the meson's python code itself. I also find it bit sad, we need python to build something in the first place.