to package or not to package?

[LunaSare]

iNaturalist has a project browser at their web portal. It only allows searching for one word at a time, it does not allow subsetting by number of records or geographic area.

The goal of this repo is to support an iNaturalist project explorer that will be a tool to find projects that match several, specific characteristics of interest to the user.

The first draft of the explorer will be published as a shiny app.
Then, the question comes: is it useful to have the shiny app code as an R package? Is it a good idea to do that at all?

Here some resources about the subject:
https://www.r-bloggers.com/packaging-shiny-applications-a-deep-dive/
https://www.r-bloggers.com/building-a-shiny-app-as-a-package/