[jillesvangurp]

What you are suggesting here is a lot of manual work. What I'm complaining about is that there is no sane/easy way to avoid having to do all of that and getting everybody on the team to do the exact same things.

This should be as simple as "import the project". Done. There should not be any extra steps. No settings fiddling. No magic files to copy. No plugin installations to intellij. Etc.