If you work on any seriously big Java/Kotlin/Android project, and value your time, I recommend looking at Buck (or Bazel or other tools) for building instead of Gradle if you haven’t done so yet.

It would be annoying to move build tools, and plenty more of hookups are not as convenient in a bunch if cases, but when you get it going things will run faster. (So again, the bigger the project, the more likely you would like that)

A big part of the reason is that tools suck as Buck (which, like Bazel, uses Skylark as the language, which is a very limited python in essence) avoid the general programming patterns to avoid the issues described here.