Plugin Portal Dependency Resolution Failing Due to JCenter Usage

This change to settings.gradle is working for me:

// settings.gradle
pluginManagement {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
        gradlePluginPortal()
    }
}

HT to Received status code 524 from server: Origin Time-out - #6 by SteinGaming. Essentially forces Gradle to try Maven Central first and avoid the JCenter outage.