> (TBF this was about 5 years ago so maybe it has improved.) No, it's gotten worse. They've deprecated most of what you know from 5 years ago and now have diff

> (TBF this was about 5 years ago so maybe it has improved.) No, it's gotten worse. They've deprecated most of what you know from 5 years ago and now have different ways of doing the same thing. Not better, except it's probably more "performance friendly" as that's been their priority lately, to make Gradle perform as well as the competitors... mostly, it's just different and even more black arts now as you're forced to use Providers, inject dependencies and so on.