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From the beginning of the package, we have naturally wanted to extend the functionalities to GridapP4est and GridapPETSc. However, this comes at a cost: We now depend on compatibility with the binaries/artifacts that power those two packages. This has been a downside in terms of compatibility, as showcased by the struggles we had during our JOSS publication. Moreover, the library has come to a point where we do not require PETSc or P4est for most things.
All this considered, I have decided to move all of this code to extensions. Extensions are a new feature of Julia 1.9, that allow conditional loading and extension of packages. This perfectly addresses our needs, so I see no downside of taking this path.
The only downside is that it limits our Julia compat to 1.9 and above. I however do not think this is an issue.