[sirius87]

I shudder to think what happens in another 5 years or so when the min target is bumped. We have an app built with about 6-8 Jetpack Compose libraries that is already flaky (even after using BOM) and only a magic combination of library versions ensures the app runs across SDK versions.

If you think developer libraries provided by Google for Android are stable, battle-tested and you feel this is akin to first-party "platform code", please be advised that it can be a hellscape with you fighting Google's build tools and the IDE/dev env on one side and zero help on SO to debug device-specific issues with lengthy stacktraces on the other. You end up landing on an Android issue-tracker where some kind soul mentioned the device name, only to find that issue in limbo asking for a working reproduction.