[chapill]

You're now contradicting yourself:

>I really find it difficult to figure out why things fail even though I have almost 20 years of experience

>In Gradle, this is immediately understandable to everybody

You pulled an easy example to defend Gradle for the exact problem you just complained about.

>You may not want or like to learn another tool and that's fine.

It's not about like or want, it's about having the wisdom to recognize a poor solution before investing time in adopting it. OP fell for the hype. Maven works fine for me, thanks.