CMake made me give up on C++ development. I actually liked C++ as a language, but it was exhausting and deeply uninteresting to write my own build system with a stringly-typed language that almost completely punts on package management (even the approach described in TFA is embarrassing to anyone who has used other mainstream languages) and has first-class support for certain dependencies (IIRC CMake has builtin functions for Qt and gtest and probably others). No doubt that CMake is a moderate improvement over Make, but it's still far, far worse than just about every other mainstream programming language's build tooling.

EDIT: I remember being amazed when Go came out circa 2011 that I could just "go build" a project and it just worked. One had to understand "GOPATH" which was slightly counterintuitive but not too bad, and of course it wasn't reproducible (both of those problems are pretty much addressed nowadays via modules), but I was blown away that I could actually just "go build" or "go test" and focus on my application code instead of my project tooling.