I originally hated Gradle due to its sheer complexity, but there was an incident that I was put off by Maven. I realized that even with the simplest configurati

I originally hated Gradle due to its sheer complexity, but there was an incident that I was put off by Maven. I realized that even with the simplest configuration possible, Maven tried to re-create a `.jar` file on `mvn package` every time even when I didn't change any files. Maven is famous for not utilizing incremental builds well and this shows. The strange thing is that incremental builds in Maven sometimes work. I could not find the rules behind this. These unpredictable behaviors make me nervous when I use Maven. Gradle is extremely complex and its behavior changes between versions, which makes my life harder, but at least at a specific version, Gradle's behavior has been stable. Just my two cents.