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I see a request years ago but closed

stale

:( https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/8531

and crazy shenanigans are happening

yeah, that is the main effect of using

afterEvaluate

🙂 The roadmap says, that with Gradle 9 they want to finish switching over all the built-in stuff to providers etc., so hopefully also this will be properly lazified in Gradle 9. If you think they could overlook it, you can consider opening a feature request or trying to make them reopen #8531.