Why does Maven have such a bad rep?

There is a lot of talk on the internet about how Maven is bad. I have been using some features of Maven for a few years now and the most important benefit in my view is the dependency management.

Problem building executable jar with maven

I am trying to generate an executable jar for a small home project called "logmanager" using maven, just like this:

Find Oracle JDBC driver in Maven repository

I want to add the oracle jdbc driver to my project as dependency (runtime scope) - ojdbc14. In MVNrepository site the dependency to put in the POM is: