I wouldn’t use Java again because I am done dealing with the brokenness of Maven and Gradle. They are the opposite of “little fuss and muss.” The Go build tools fit your analogy better.
Go uses two build tools for any non-trivial projects. One write in go.mod and another in Make :D (see this - https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/tree/master/build/r...)
https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo
There is a Docker file and some shell scripts, but you build the executable using "go install".
people shit on maven, but i say it's much better than many other built tooling - npm, make, or custom scripts.
The only thing need getting used to is that you cannot and should not stray from the maven model - fit your project's built into the maven model, rather than try to twist maven to do your bidding.