No that's not how it works. IDEA has its own project files (*.iml, .idea), separate from Maven. We are talking about IDE projects which are separate from Maven.
For example in CLion you can't create a new target from the IDE, you have to edit the cmake file.
> In order to even get the IDE working with a project you need to configure it to work.
Meaning you already have a Maven/SBT/Gradle project and need to get the IDE to work with it.
Why else would I come on here to make some claim that is false?