IanM On the other hand, there is no way to easily enable this extension via admin panel in case of a large forum due to timeouts.
In the case of upgrades, just type the php flarum migrate
command and there is no problem with timeouts like in the web version. Yes, it will take time, but this way there will be no problem with new installations. Administrators of new forums will not have to search and ask how to work around this problem.
The stable version of Flarum is finally out and there will be more forums and the problem will become more common. I think it's worth doing now, while there is no large number of forums based on Flarum.