Yah and i think the reason for this (happy to wrong here too) the genie libraries are primarily built for vendors with traditional network operating systems (like Cisco IOS, IOS-XE, NX-OS, etc.) that have well-defined command-line interfaces (CLIs) as genie excels at parsing CLI output into structured data. Meraki is a API first approach (yay!) so your code isnt interacting with a CLI, its primarily communicating with the Meraki platform through REST APIs. You you could theoretically try to build a genie library that parses API responses, but in my exp it is generally not the most efficient or idiomatic way to interact with API-driven devices.
Yes you are right, you can use pyats to test any network device or vendor as long as the device supports Python-based interaction or automation, keep in mind there are some considerations and limitations. If the device/s can be accessed via SSH or Telnet and responds to standard CLI commands, pyats can likely interact with it.
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