I think I've checked all the stackoverflow issues possible but nobody else seems to be encountering that issue 😕 My team was really looking forward to bringing Kotlin into our ecosystem

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63761379/intellij-missing-reference-to-slf4j-in-new-ktor-project, maybe you missed this one. It's not the greatest solution either tbh, but it might give you a result

I don’t think that this SO is related, because it was some Intellij + Gradle issue, not Maven