The Meiri Method in Relation to Gentiles

I saw that the rabbi refers to the Meiri method regarding the status of non-Jews in halakhah as an authentic method. Did the rabbi read Rabbi Hillman's article on the subject?
https://beta.hebrewbooks.org/reader/reader.aspx?sfid=26453#p=65&fitMode=fitwidth&hlts=&ocr=
I am pretty convinced from this that the Meiri's differences were intended to answer the questions of the species. (The Meiri there says things that make no sense that there would really be a difference between the worshipers of the AZ and ordinary Gentiles + places where he betrays his true intention and contradicts himself).