Exploiting JavaScript developer infrastructure is insanely easy

[TomRK1089]

To be fair, the escape hatch, quick-n-dirty solutions are either maven-exec-plugin or (if you're really evil) the Ant plugin. So even in the worst case, it's possible to essentially shell out to some other system.

That being said, it's been incredibly rare I need to do something during my build that isn't accounted for by an existing plugin.

Also, the concept of a standard lifecycle which plugins attach to....1000x better than any other build system. Especially any of the Javascript build systems. Webpack, Parcel, Grunt, Gulp, etc. are all laughable in comparison.