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People often have this attitude to subjective meaning – as though it were something we "put" into an objectively meaningless world, and the response to that meaninglessness should be lack of prejudice, an orientation toward objectivity, rationalism and peer reviewed studies.

Meaning is not something we choose to actively make. It is found. It is never performed by the subject, only discovered - even if it does come from us. To dismiss it entirely for being ill-adapted, quirky, primitive, awkward or neurotic, to me, feels like pushing something vital away.

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The experience / phenomenon that meaning, like a lot of other things, acts independently of the egoic psyche (as part of the non-egoic) is one aspect of Unconsciousness that isn't well enough understood imho. People don't deal very well with meaning; they get overly attached or throw it away.

The world may inherently lack meaning, sure. What does Jung say, meaning is for those who do not understand? Sitting in that place from where it bubbles up can transform you. If you think it lacks reality, then feel free to forget it, and be controlled by it until it peels away on your deathbed.