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I guess that they wanted to go down the route of "hardly controversial and highly popular" applications, that's why they didn't include Maven.

Granted, Maven is an essential piece in the Java ecosystem, yet it seems that many developers are highly opinionated about it.

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Citing Maven also feels a bit circular. It's an important Java application, but being a build tool it's only because there's lots of Java out there to build.

Minecraft and a lot of the other apps are terminally impressive, so it's easier to justify the ecosystem that produced them.

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