Ravi Akella

After removing Kotlin from system, I still had the same issue with `build-lfc` as well as with `Gradle assemble`. Rebuilding with `mvn compile` resulted in build success  : ...

After downgrading Gradle from v7.4 that also packages with downgraded Kotlin, I was able to compile latest master successfully.  I just happened to try and the result holds true...

> The same error occurred with re-upgrade to 7.4 and clean rebuild options. Thanks for clarifying regarding mvn build which explains why jar file error occurred. Better to include that...

Even when I use gradlew, as long as I had Kotlin 1.5, I kept getting the errors. This reaffirms @lhstrh statements above.