Gradle Slowness in IDEA

Hey,

I am not the first one to ask this, but answer I've found so far were quite dissatisfactory.

Not only does gradle constantly do `building model`, but even debug mode will cause the whole project to be recompiled, instead of just the changed files when running IDEAs `compile and rebuild`.

I just switched to gradle and didn't have any of these problems with a maven project.

Note that I am not talking about daemon start time or a first build run.

Is there some trick? I've seen there's a gradle IDEA plugin, but i wasn't sure whether it's a necessity or actually provides anything valuable.