Having the number of dependencies wouldn’t help much. There needs to be more help in managing the dependencies, and it’s not just about applying changes. Unrecording a change is quite cumbersome when other changes depend on it.
I wrote a script to visualize the dependencies, but it would be better is pijul would prompt for how to handle these or at the very least list them.
Maybe a way to list the number of lines affected, number of files affected, and/or dependencies would give an idea of the complexity of a change. (But line oriented numbers are for text files…)