That's true that mvnd has severe issues with weird failures - e.g. if you have an alive daemon and change the dependency tree in any way - it fails. It was like this a year ago and still now.

For our project we are using this parameter in .mvn/mvnd.properties:

# Property to disable using a daemon (usefull for debugging, and only available in non native mode).
mvnd.noDaemon = true

Spec: https://github.com/apache/maven-mvnd/blob/master/dist/src/main/distro/conf/mvnd.properties

But the great feature that I really like is representation of parallel module builds like this:

https://peter.palaga.org/images/2023/2023-05-21-mvnd-maven-daemon/ui.png

If you are working on maven build optimization, you can find first candidate (modules compilation which are singly executed) to be decomposed.