Now that we have Dependabot taking care of our dependencies we should not need the updateDependencies plugin anymore.

By removing this plugin we also remove some deprecations with Apollo:

Calling configuration method 'attributes(Action)' is deprecated for configuration 'apolloMetadata', which has permitted usage(s):
        Declarable - this configuration can have dependencies added to it
  • https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/13864