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Question: given that you declare tasks as `abstract` so that Gradle can subclass them, is there any kind of annotation or other mechanism that says "cannot be subclassed, except by Gradle"?

Also, you don't need to make the class abstract. It just saves you a ton of boilerplate code. But you can also inject `ObjectFactory` and set the priorities and so on.

Do you want to mark a class as 'do not subclass' for 'self documenting code' reasons, or to prevent plugin users from implementing your class? Or something else?