LLMs take the whole argument away. Yes, maven/gradle/sbt suck to work with. But now you can just generate it.

I've been using maven for 20+ years, gradle for 10? ant for 5 before that. sbt for 15. I've written custom plugins for all of them. I know them quite well, unfortunately.

I use LLMs to maintain them now. I keep the build files simple. It was an inconvenience before, but a trifle now.