It’s not clear to me that Gradle provides any benefit worth the pain it incurs. Every single Gradle file within $COMPANY seems to be completely distinct, with t

It’s not clear to me that Gradle provides any benefit worth the pain it incurs. Every single Gradle file within $COMPANY seems to be completely distinct, with there being god knows how many ways to do something as simple as compiling a Spring application into a jar. I have no idea why each file is different, and which style is the “right” way, or even what the trade offs are. It’s when I found myself attaching a debugger to my Gradle session to debug it that I threw up my hands in disgust and said “you know what, give me XML back” and went back to Maven.