After reading that mockito switched to mockito-inline by default (with 5.0.0) i expected either mockito-core to have a mockito-inline dependency, or mockito-inline has been merged into mockito-core.

Interestingly neither of this is the case (since mockito-inline has a 5.0.0 release and no mockito-inline transitive dependency is found in https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.mockito/mockito-core/5.0.0 )

The concrete question is, how should we go about the current explicit dependency on mockito-inline. Should it be removed with 5.0.0 or should it stay?