However it’s not all accidental complexity. To pick a random example, there’s a reason typo squatting is a thing in npm or pypi but not in maven/gradle. The mitigation’s that prevent this are not free, they add complexity (e.g. signing before publication, dns records, immutable packages etc).

But there’s definitely some areas of accidental complexity remain. While gradle CAN be used well (e.g. <3 min build on large code base), the default in large teams seems to resemble a kind of tragedy of the commons. Full of sharp edges and >45 min builds.