Hi. Incredible article. Congratulations. Maybe you want to read this article I wrote about disabling Jetifier: https://blog.dipien.com/say-bye-bye-to-android-jetifier-a7e0d388f5d6
The can-i-drop-jetifier plugin only checks for legacy support libraries on the dependencies graph. That’s not enough to decide if you can drop Jetifier. Lots of libraries don’t properly declare on their POMs the legacy support libraries they use as transitive dependencies. So, for those cases, can-i-drop-jetifier says that you can disable Jetifier. But, if you do that, then you are going to have runtime errors when the logic using the legacy support library is executed.
I created this plugin to properly detect if you can disable or not jetifier: https://github.com/dipien/bye-bye-jetifier