Gradle degraded the dependency experience significantly from maven. Maven had a deterministic, sensible (and selectable) way of dealing with conflicts - gradle

Gradle degraded the dependency experience significantly from maven. Maven had a deterministic, sensible (and selectable) way of dealing with conflicts - gradle just defaults to "largest version wins". Similarly, gradle chucked the whole idea of being able to manage common sets of dependencies across multiple projects easily (the maven super pom). I mean, it's all programmable in gradle, but it pretty much ignored the excellent work maven had done except to use its repos.