starting out with ktor and getting random gradle issues, what could be wrong, where to start? - gradle

Question

I'm getting started with KTOR and getting gradle errors with various sample projects...
I tried the Ktor generator and then the KTOR documentation snippet project and both are not building/syncing.
Should I be using IntelliJ Ultimate? (currently I have IntelliJ IDEA 2022.3.2 (Community Edition))
The tutorial-server-get-started gives me: Task 'wrapper' not found in project ':tutorial-server-get-started'.
And the online generated project was giving me something about Plugin [id: 'org.jetbrains.kotlin.jvm', version: '2.2.3'] was not found in any of the following sources:
I tried to find fixes online, but seems like one error leads to another, so maybe I have to start with some specific instructions? Thank you.
Below are the contents of the generated gradle.kts
val ktor_version: String by project
val kotlin_version: String by project
val logback_version: String by project
plugins {
kotlin("jvm") version "2.2.3"
application
id("org.jetbrains.kotlin.plugin.serialization") version "1.8.10"
}
group = "com.example"
version = "0.0.1"
application {
mainClass.set("com.example.ApplicationKt")
val isDevelopment: Boolean = project.ext.has("development")
applicationDefaultJvmArgs = listOf("-Dio.ktor.development=$isDevelopment")
}
repositories {
mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
implementation("io.ktor:ktor-network-tls-jvm:$ktor_version")
implementation("io.ktor:ktor-server-core:$ktor_version")
implementation("io.ktor:ktor-websockets:$ktor_version")
implementation("io.ktor:ktor-serialization:$ktor_version")
implementation("io.ktor:ktor-auth:$ktor_version")
implementation("io.ktor:ktor-auth-jwt:$ktor_version")
implementation("io.ktor:ktor-server-netty:$ktor_version")
implementation("ch.qos.logback:logback-classic:$logback_version")
testImplementation("io.ktor:ktor-server-tests:$ktor_version")
testImplementation("org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-test-junit:$kotlin_version")
}
gradlew.properties
ktor_version=1.8.10
kotlin_version=2.2.3
logback_version=1.2.11
kotlin.code.style=official