some of them are very much “wish list” items rather than actual necessities. but there are some issues that definitely qualify as blockers in my mind: https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/12934 in particular, since `@union`s are too limited right now.

and, having finished reading through that thread, i think that i was assuming it was more about the plugin API than it actually is: user API deprecations are another story

i’ve aded an example to #12934, which might spark some ideas for API changes:

class Field:
    @rule_helper
    @staticmethod
    async def compute_default_value() -> Any:
        ...

class JvmResolveField:
    @rule_helper
    @staticmethod
    async def compute_default_value() -> Any:
        jvm = await Get(JvmSubsystem, ..)
        return jvm.default_resolve

…it could allow for pretty significant improvements to plugin APIs.

Don't forget though the `Get`s are collected using static type lookup though

…i guess the relevant link is: https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/14238#issuecomment-1031068983

I don't completely grok the issue link, but I'm sure I will when it comes closer to fruition