I'm still with Gradle, but my feeling is the same. Gradle comes with some very good things, but the typical Gradle configuration is an insane mess!
However, not everything is magically better with Maven. It is slower (although the Maven daemon is an improvement), the XML config is a bit verbose and modules are not as straightforward as with Gradle. But the convention over configuration approach (without exceptions like in Gradle) makes maintenance way easier.
However, not everything is magically better with Maven. It is slower (although the Maven daemon is an improvement), the XML config is a bit verbose and modules are not as straightforward as with Gradle. But the convention over configuration approach (without exceptions like in Gradle) makes maintenance way easier.