Unfortunately, you can't skip this and sometimes it gets error and problems to your project.
It this happens to you, you can try upgrading the Gradle version in the dependencies of your buildscript:
classpath "com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.0.0-alpha04" or a newest version
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