I know little about gradle and have only just started exploring it, so this is just a question out of curiosity.
It’s supposedly a language agnostic dependency manager and builder, yet it seems to have only found its niche in Java. C/C++ projects could definitely do with dependency resolution…
Gradle upgrades are dead simple… like yeah I get a bunch of the other criticisms of Gradle, but they mark things as deprecated two full major versions ahead and then slowly phase them out. Upgrades are a single command.
I haven’t really encountered the issues others are having and I’m guessing a lot of them occurred before Gradle’s switch to kotlin.
Edit: or the issues are actually from android build tool and not actually Gradle