Maybe this will include the jetbrains annotations in the pom?

build.gradle

@@ -99,8 +99,16 @@ publishing {
             from components.java
 
             pom.withXml {
+
                 asNode().appendNode("packaging", "jar")
                 asNode().remove(asNode().get("dependencies"))
+
+                // jetbrains annotations
+                def dependenciesNode = asNode().appendNode('dependencies')
+                def dependencyNode = dependenciesNode.appendNode('dependency')
+                dependencyNode.appendNode('groupId', "org.jetbrains")
+                dependencyNode.appendNode('artifactId', "annotations")
+                dependencyNode.appendNode('version', "19.0.0")
             }
         }
     }