Are there any plans to remove the dependency on Groovy?

First of all, I'd like to say that I am a huge fan of RestAssured. Congratulations on this amazing library! RestAssured is really awesome and I'm using it in a lot of open-source projects already, however I noticed that since the upgrade to Groovy 4, I started facing some performance issues while running my tests (similar to as reported in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-10307).

I'd like to kindly ask: are there any plans to drop the dependency on Groovy in the near future (or to make it a separate module when you need the Groovy features)?

Thanks and keep up the good work !