It is certainly possible, but adding a manual step for something that has no reason not to be automatic doesn't make sense. Yes, you can certainly choose to do

It is certainly possible, but adding a manual step for something that has no reason not to be automatic doesn't make sense. Yes, you can certainly choose to do more manual work for no reason, but why would you? And if you don't want that (for example if you distribute a library), you can still distribute the project without the lockfile, and then have the users distribute the lockfile back to you to get a repeatable error.