Yes the lack of discoverability, plus the unfamiliar syntax of Groovy, plus names changing between versions, I started with Gradle thinking it would be easier but in the end I'd love to go back to Ant. That was awful to write but at least you could understand it.
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I spent years copying essentially the same ant-file across projects, just changing dependencies and target names. It's not really rocket science and unless you're trying to be clever, most java projects can look pretty much the same from a build perspective