Certainly, Buddhists have a sophisticated way of talking about how the meaning crisis arises and how it's resolved. Vervaeke is influenced by the Kyoto School, which combines Buddhism with Western philosophy. I wrote something to contrast that kind of Buddhism with what I called "existential cosmicism" (link below).
It's not just Buddhists that have levels of teaching, of course. What Leo Strauss called the esoteric-exoteric divide is found in all kinds of ancient philosophy and religion, including Christianity. Jesus spoke in parables and he said those with ears to hear would understand their hidden meaning. The fact that there are these social divisions between the elites and the vulgar compromisers, or a continuum of enlightenment and ignorance is revealing, just as the existence of evil or unnecessary suffering or the need for a theodicy would tell us much about the First Cause.
In any case, I believe the Buddhist would say that the search for meaning is due to egoistic illusions. So the need for meaning or a cosmic function or purpose disappears as the person's character is purified by that meta-perspective. If the self is a byproduct we can grow out of, there's no outstanding problem of how the self could possibly be suited to the universe. I criticize this Buddhist response, though, in the second link below.
http://rantswithintheundeadgod.blogspot.com/2019/10/nihilism-cosmicism-and-nishitanis.html
