Is <profileable> safe in the production build?

Question

For using macrobenchmark, we need to add <profileable> to AndroidManifest.

<profileable
    android:shell="true"
    tools:targetApi="q" />

Is it safe to include <profileable> in the production build?

Answer 1

It is considered safe. It exposes only limited amount of information that are either obfuscated or lacking symbols in the release build. Some of the Google apps are using it in production.

Answer 2

Why not merge this manifest node with the debug source-set?
One also could remove it from the release source-set, same effect.
This might not answer the question, but it makes it irrelevant.