As would Gradle. Any argument for Maven is an argument for Gradle :-)

In a Maven vs Gradle war you have:

-- Maven is well established, but it has problems. -- Gradle recognizes many of the problems of Maven and fixes them.

-- XML is a notation for use by consenting computers only. -- The rise of SCons, Rake, Rant, Gant, Gradle show that XML is the past in build technology and the use of a dynamic programming language is the future. -- Groovy should eat its own dog food. -- Change is as good as a rest. -- Why fix what ain't broken. -- The world always looks better through rose tinted spectacles. -- The current Groovy build is becoming to overcomplex to understand and it has redundant bits that no-one dares touch in case it breaks something -- a sure sign of the need for a rewrite.

-- People do far too much argument based on prejudice and waffle and not enough on hard (or even soft) data.