When using use_release_issue(), it always warns to run reverse dependency checks via

I think it might be easy to make it conditionally to if there is any dependency in CRAN.
Something along:

if (lengths(tools::package_dependencies(pkg, which = "all", reverse = TRUE)) == 0) {
    return(NULL)
}

For new releases and new package developers it will be easier to go through one less item.
It can be a nice warning to developers when package get their first reverse dependency.

I see usethis is already hitting the 20 dependencies limit. Maybe tools can be "hidden" as a Suggests or use one of the current dependencies for the same functionality.