And that's true in most companies. So then the question is, how acceptable is it to cause a break in some dependent project by making a change in a dependency.

And that's true in most companies. So then the question is, how acceptable is it to cause a break in some dependent project by making a change in a dependency. That will depend on the company and the type of product. For a consumer product company like Meta this is probably ok, but for an enterprise company that makes mission-critical software it may be less ok.