[deepsun]

But it's IDE who picks up every change, not Maven. God forbid you run 'mvn install' for all modules on every line change while developing, that's IDEs job. Maven config just tells IDE locations and dependencies.

For release build you do want to clean up the space in CI/CD anyway.

Not sure what you mean by "doesn't have a good core abstraction". For example, Linux famously doesn't have a good core abstraction (aka "monolithic kernel").

[gf000]

It's not a good core abstraction for a build tool to not be able to do proper iterative builds. And thus it's not a good model for IDEs neither, while with Gradle it never gets out of sync, with Maven it can easily happen that some edits don't "show up" in behavior.