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My first thought was, "include a dev and prod version of the package" but that creates a ton of regression surface area for a feature that most people can't be bothered with anyway.

It's easy enough to have things work in pre-prod and fail in prod without running slightly different code between them.

I think there is a solution to this, but it's going to require that we change to something a lot more beefy than semver to define interface compatibility. Semver is a gentlemen's agreement to adhere to the Liskov Substitution Principle. We are none of us gentlemen, least of all when considered together.



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