Whenever your satellites are relatively static and not moving around regularly, WDS/ 4addr should be the easier and faster approach (ideally you avoid daisy-chaining repeaters, as the repeater effect comes into play, and have all repeaters connect to the 'central' router).
Real meshing (and not what most vendors call that) comes into play if your satellites are mobile, if you have multiple (potential) uplink scenarios or even routes (as well as more than a handful of satellites).
But… A wired backhaul connection (with a dumb AP setup) is always to be preferred to the extent possible, even if that might not be possible for all repeaters, at least do that for those that can be wired up.