No, it is never too late. It may give you more available flash space in the future.
That is really a matter of whether or not and when @clayface's pull request actually gets merged into master. You are welcome to leave review feedback there to help to convince them maintainers with merging power. Once it is merged it will automatically build as snapshots and if nothing else fails a year or two later it may make its way into a stable branch and finally be "officially" supported. Yeah!