I have been using Gradle for more then a decade and for the most part it works fine but occasionally there are situations where I have no clue what went wrong.

I have been using Gradle for more then a decade and for the most part it works fine but occasionally there are situations where I have no clue what went wrong. Onboarding junior developers onto a big multi module projects that use Gradle can be really difficult. Understandably they are unable to grok the mental model (sometimes I even doubt if I do after all this time). One thing that has helped though has been switching entirely over to the Kotlin DSL.