This reinforces my opinion about Gradle: there are too many footguns and papercuts. Every time I shot myself in foot using Gradle, some Gradle expert would chime in that I'm probably not using some (poorly documented) way of doing things that would have drastically improved my experience.

This becomes even more problematic in large teams where we have a mix of experienced and novice engineers. Onboarding new people and maintaining the cognitive load about the build using Maven is several magnitudes faster and predictable than with Gradle.