Why does adding a repository to build.gradle make it not find a dependency?

I see that jCenter will be decomissioned in the distant future and one is asked to stop using it by Gradle warning. Therefore I have started the transition, and since I saw that simply replacing jcenter() with mavenCentral() resulted in missing dependencies, I opted to add the Maven Central before JCenter as a first start.

AFAIK, Gradle will visit the Maven repos in-order: google, then maven central, then jcenter. But what happens is that when I add it, Gradle is unable to find a dependency:

$ time ./gradlew build --stacktrace
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Could not determine the dependencies of task ':app:compileReleaseKotlin'.
> Could not resolve all files for configuration ':app:debugRuntimeClasspath'.
   > Could not find :unspecified:.
     Required by:
         project :app > project :cameramodule > id.zelory:compressor:2.1.0

...
Caused by: org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.ivyservice.DefaultLenientConfiguration$ArtifactResolveException: Could not resolve all files for configuration ':app:debugRuntimeClasspath'.
...
Caused by: org.gradle.internal.resolve.ModuleVersionNotFoundException: Could not find :unspecified:.
Required by:
    project :app > project :cameramodule > id.zelory:compressor:2.1.0


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BUILD FAILED in 15s

Diff

Date:   Thu Sep 9 01:46:58 2021 +0200

    Prever Maven Central over JCenter repos

diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 6dd00f0..533e262 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ buildscript {
     ext.kotlin_version = '1.3.72'
     repositories {
         google()
-        jcenter()
-
+        mavenCentral()
+        jcenter() // read-only as of March 2021
     }
     dependencies {
         classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.2.0'
@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ buildscript {
 allprojects {
     repositories {
         google()
-        jcenter()
-
+        mavenCentral()
+        jcenter() // read-only as of March 2021
     }
 }