I was probably not clear. 'It' refers quite specifically to pom.xml, not Maven as a whole. Thus : > the fact remains that it [pom.xml] exists and most develo

I was probably not clear. 'It' refers quite specifically to pom.xml, not Maven as a whole. Thus : > the fact remains that it [pom.xml] exists and most developers will have to interact with it at some point or another. That's simply not the case in many other systems. Again, I would like to highlight that this entire discussion should be viewed through the lens of friction vs. frictionless tools, and what that means for community adoption.