Gradle uses Maven Central. These shaded fat jars in the Maven Central confuse and hurt Gradle users as much as Maven users. Let's not derail this discussion further.

The artifact weld-servlet should be renamed to what is really is, weld-servlet-with-shaded-classes. And then it's clear that weld-servlet-core (which is not weld-core!) covers all use cases so weld-servlet-with-shaded-classes can in fact be deleted altogether.