Will doing this break stuff? - cinnamon spice updater

[DoggyDandelion]

I'll try to be concise. I am new to computers, python and Linux so I am sorry if this is a dumb question. I am trying to write an update script to update packages from multiple package mangers (not because I need to, the GUI is fine, I'm just practicing/learning bash scripting). I want the option to list available updates, which I have and works fine. The cinnamon-spice-updater has the --list-simple option but you have to select a spice-type. I know I could just write the four bash commands to list the available updates but I was wondering why there isn't an option to do that? In the code for cinnamon-spice-updater I changed
choices = ["applet", "desklet", "extension", "theme"]
to
choices = ["applet", "desklet", "extension", "theme", "all"]

and I changed

    def list_simple(self, spice_type):
        if spice_type is None:
            return

        self.updater.refresh_cache_for_type(spice_type)
        updates = self.updater.get_updates_of_type(spice_type)

        for update in updates:
            print(update.uuid)

to

    def list_simple(self, spice_type):
        if spice_type is None:
            return

        elif spice_type == "all":
            self.updater.refresh_all_caches()
            updates = self.updater.get_updates()

        else:
            self.updater.refresh_cache_for_type(spice_type)
            updates = self.updater.get_updates_of_type(spice_type)

        for update in updates:
            print(update.uuid)

I have no idea if there is a better way to do that. Will doing that break stuff? Is there a better way I should do it? I looked into the code and I found that the updater.get_updates() method uses a loop and for each individual spice-type and and concatenates the updates together. Why can't you get there updates all at once? Again, sorry if this is a dumb question, I'm just learning and there isn't many forum post about this already (that I could find). Is it because each type has its own repository on GitHub? Thanks for reading :)