I wrote much of https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/plugins/servlet/mobile?contentId=118163392#content/view/118163392 20 years back, and still stand by the basic message.
Maven is a build tool though, and aims and reproducibility. Minimal output should be the default (console and log files). If someone wants more, they can run the build again with another —argument. Cough, I mean -Dargument
