I'm afraid I'll stick to Maven for Android. Probably just as much ugliness, but it's a bit more out of sight.
Anyway, thanks for the contribution!
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.