This is a lovely discussion of the effort and benefits of reverse dependency checks. There are, of course, functions and packages that make this straightforward.

Consider the amount of open source statistical software available at the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN).
Packages such as car, psych, lavaan, OpenMx were developed by and for psychologists. They have more than 5-10k downloads per day.
R is an open source tool for developing tools.

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I write my own code for the psych package so that I can learn new statistics. My knowledge of stats/psychometrics has increased as I have added new functions to psych. Some of the functions are to handle data sets that are unusual in their structure and conventional algorithms will not work.I

Actually, celebrate the equinox with psych 2.5.3 . The solstice release was in December and was version 2.4.12.