I don't think you'd print money just by telling people if a dependency is hard or easy to install though. You'd need to actually solve the problem of getting the dependency installed or suggesting some alternative solution that gets the code written.
E.g. if I'm banging my head against a wall trying to upgrade to the newest version of PyTorch for some graph embeddings feature and everything breaks, knowing it's high risk doesn't help me. I still need to get the thing installed so I can use the feature.
Okay yeah, totally agree. I already know it's hard to install. If they gave me a path they were confident would work in terms of deps/versions to upgrade to, that I would pay for if it worked well.
E.g. if I'm banging my head against a wall trying to upgrade to the newest version of PyTorch for some graph embeddings feature and everything breaks, knowing it's high risk doesn't help me. I still need to get the thing installed so I can use the feature.