> I know you will say, this is all fault of whoever made this crap project

It is. There's really no excuse for that. If it's been similar every time then you've worked on crap every time.

Building a java project should be (and is on projects I work on) as easy as installing a jvm and running either maven or gradle to build it. End of story.

"Install some lombok plugin" is only necessary if you want the IDE to understand lombok, IntelliJ will just pop up a box saying "Want this?" and you click "Yes". I don't see what's so onerous about that.

The rest you describe is really down to poor developers.