I didn't have it marked as a preview release blocker, but after finishing up a report I left half finished yesterday I did go ahead and make all the changes needed to remove a dependency I wanted to get rid of. Now all the reports are produced and displayed in a uniform way that requires a little less boilerplate, isn't showing spurious warnings on stderr, and generally doesn't have quite so many sharp edges to beware of. It is a bit slower to display when requesting hundreds of pages at once.
The porting work involved there was pretty minimal and I think there's some other stuff I can go ahead and delete now as well.