This was on my mind as my entire day devolved into dealing with weird build issues. I ran into a hiccup with the build at work, a frequent occurence due to the monolithic setup, and needed to unload a module in my IDE and reload it since it wasn't picking up a change. But this ended up causing some classes to not be found. After trying a few things I decided it was time to "refresh" the project and have it re build and re-index.
This ended up creating a huge headache where I had to re-configure
the locations of all "source" and "test" folders since we didn't
stick to the Maven standard. On top of that
we suffix our test classes with Tests
(instead of Test) so I had to setup the conveniences that
allow the IDE to move easily from test to the code that it tests. The list goes on but the short
story is this consumed my entire day. And it's still not done; there will
be hiccups waiting for me Monday morning.
Hot Take: Use default settings, configuration, and convention with your build tooling unless you absolutely must break the standard. But even then I'd put in effort to figure out if I'm doing something in a cute way that could be done in a more idiomatic way.