@seberg, would you mind bringing this to the attention of the appropriate reviewer?

p.s. I don't think I'd count this as a bug, but more like an enhancement.

Ok sounds good. I thought it was a bug since the documentation said that base is array like

Do you have a reasoning for where to put the base dimensions and how it would mix if start/stop are not 0-D (which seems possible)?

@seberg, the way I imagined it was that base, start, and stop all had to be broadcastable against one another, no mixing allowed.

Sorry more coffee was needed, it is very obvious that broadcasting is fine. And I guess the old behavior was useless enough that it should be OK to change unceremoniously (i.e. it was mostly useless).
Do you want to add a release note and maybe a .. versionchanged:: directive to the base attribute?

Ah yes, more coffee is almost always needed! I'll add those changes straight away.

Quick :). Changes look good, thanks. But one more ask: I am suspecting you also want (and we should) add base to the dispatcher.

Ah yes, you're absolutely right. I did not know that we needed to do that, good catch!

Thanks @byrdie.