Currently using Moshi with Retrofit but need to look back as I noticed I am not implementing it right and confused when to add kotlin-reflect in the dependencies.

According to README

The reflection adapter requires the following additional dependency:

implementation("com.squareup.moshi:moshi-kotlin:1.13.0")

I thought the above dependency is the actual Moshi dependency but it seems it is not needed unless you are using KotlinJsonAdapterFactory. What is KotlinJsonAdapterFactory anyway, is it responsible for converting Kotlin classes to JSON?

Currently I have this dependencies and annotation processor.

   implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-reflect:$kotlin_version"

    // Retrofit 2 + Moshi
    ksp 'com.squareup.moshi:moshi-kotlin-codegen:1.12.0'
    implementation 'com.squareup.moshi:moshi-kotlin:1.12.0'
    implementation 'com.squareup.retrofit2:converter-moshi:2.9.0'

If I will be using Moshi with Codegen only, can I remove the others and ended up on just these two dependency?

    ksp 'com.squareup.moshi:moshi-kotlin-codegen:1.12.0'
    implementation 'com.squareup.retrofit2:converter-moshi:2.9.0'