I like Ant but I don't like Maven

As a developer I write program every day,in the most of time I use the IDE for example Eclipse.sometime I use a powerful and quickly texteditor such as editplus,intype....
sometime I have to build all my source code and deploy and publish my web application by manually.In this time I need a build tool.I choose Ant but not Maven.If you ask me why,or which one is better.I think as a build tool Ant is more fixable and readable.you know,even if almost every thing I need define by my hand.but It's also means I know everything that how them work.
but to tell the Maven,it's quite the reverse,maven hidden many thing in its plugin.if I want do some custom thing,that means I must write my own plugin,but to tell you the truth,write a maven plugin is more difficult than Ant.
another thing I didn't like maven because If I want to use maven I must remember many thing,many command,many dependency.....
and I have to work at network......