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It's just two compilation profiles, at least thousands of minuscule open source projects do it

Sure, but adding another target still increases maintenance burden. QA, e2e testing, acceptance testing, release engineering, etc.

That said I also wish they had a degoogled version.

It's just about not using some Google library, not that much more testing would be needed, nor maintainance or "release engineering".

I'd take an untested version over nothing, anyhow.

And I'm not sure that the current version undergoes that much testing, bugs are not very rare.