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During his review of #2926, @cwperks brought up a good point about potentially removing the dependency on the JSON-flattener.

Craig mentioned: "If that is all we use the json-flattener for than I would be in favor of less dependencies. If I am understanding it correctly, it is recursively going through a JSON structure and flattening it so all.entries.are.dot.separated and there is no object nesting?"

I am making this issue to unblock the original JSON bump PR but make sure that Craig's point is not forgotten.

To resolve this issue, we will want to review the use of the library and see whether it can be removed.