After spending far too long troubleshooting this, I found a simple workaround which ensures IntelliJ processes Lombok annotations correctly during builds. The gradle-lombok plugin is not necessary for this workaround. Your build.gradle only requires the following: dependencies { compileOnly("org.projectlombok:lombok:1.16.18") } More @Wikipedia
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