IDEA Cannot Build After Importing Gradle Project, Shows 'Starting Gradle Daemon...'

The solution comes from this blog post: Always a problem with IntelliJ and Gradle

The problem is caused by using Zulu JDK - IDEA cannot handle Zulu JDK properly.

There are two solutions: On macOS, either use a different JDK (such as Liberica JDK), or adjust JAVA_HOME to include Contents/Home