&quot;but am I the only one that fears negative PR feedback about adding cruft?&quot;<p>Go for it, and you might be surprised as how your team responds. The biggest improvements to our codebase have come from my colleagues making controversial changes. Sometimes they don&#x27;t get merged, but sometimes they end up shaping how we write code going forward.<p>You should never be scared of negative PR feedback -- your reviewers aren&#x27;t judging you, they&#x27;re judging your code, and code responds surprisingly well to criticism.