You can search "how to do X Gradle" and come away with a dozen implementations. There often seems to be at least 3 different APIs to accomplish a simple task, o

You can search "how to do X Gradle" and come away with a dozen implementations. There often seems to be at least 3 different APIs to accomplish a simple task, one ancient that's deprecated but kept around for compatibility reasons, one "new' that the Gradle devs later decided was bad, and then the proper "new" one which doesn't have all the features that people needed.