Yeah for sure, and that's what makes Maven a great tool at the end of the day. It's just those instances you encounter rarely where existing Maven plugins are n

Yeah for sure, and that's what makes Maven a great tool at the end of the day. It's just those instances you encounter rarely where existing Maven plugins are not enough that I've wished I was using Gradle so I could drop a few one-liners and be done with it. I really like Groovy so any excuse to write some Groovy is always tempting. As you say, a few one liners here and a few one liners there can make a build incomprehensible. So people need to recognize that and keep their Gradle builds approachable if they're going to be doing that. It's pros and cons.