Plugin Usage Statistics / Feedback? is a duplicate of this, too.
I’d really like to see better support, here. Publishing to the Gradle Plugin Portal compared to publishing to a JCenter or Maven Central doesn’t seem to offer much. With the Plugin Portal, you get some indexing and maybe SEO, but you also have to use a special plugin which is quite different than maven-publish, different credentials, issues with the java-gradle-plugin (and duplication), no statistics, etc.