Comment by tracker1

Totally agreed... It enables you to try swapping out dependencies you might not otherwise even consider because of the cognitive load in trying to do so as an individual, and get it done/working in a few hours and a few days to follow in order to review.

Or take on an additional/related feature (like Redis grepping over the new array data types). Because you can be relatively sure the borders are stable and you can limit the surface/scope.