Tentative +1 to Hoss' questions. I agree with his summary of the
potential risks here, and I share his ignorance of the perceived
benefits.
(I thought for a time that this was driven by interest in having
release cadences independent from Solr-core releases. I'm all for
that goal, but if that's
An aspect that would be interesting to consider IMO is upgrade and
configuration changes.
For example a collection in use across Solr version upgrade might require
different configuration (config set) with the old and new Solr versions.
Solr itself can require changes in config across updates.