[ohgodplsno]

Seasoned Java/Kotlin dev:

Nah, Gradle is a fucking mess no matter what. If you don't absolutely understand the gradle life cycle, how to avoid task configuration, keeping everything lazy, avoid cross configuration, understand that buildSrc is shit, gradle will be hell.

[matsemann]

Agreed. Maven is boring, but for most stuff it just works. Hard to customize, but before doing that, ask yourself why you're doing something different than millions of other projects. Go with the defaults and things will work.

Gradle feels to me like trying to set up a webpack project. Loads of magic configuration no one dares to touch after it happens to somewhat work correctly.