XML is just verbose, after that it's pretty simple. It's all declarative, there's no code execution during build time that you have to keep in mind to build a m

XML is just verbose, after that it's pretty simple. It's all declarative, there's no code execution during build time that you have to keep in mind to build a mental model of what is actually executing, you read the XML, check the steps and configurations and can understand completely what's being executed. I like Kotlin, I don't like build tools that allow general computing during runtime where I will have to debug build code to understand what exactly has failed. Declarative tools are much better to reason about for most infrastructure tasks.