luminus so so handy, but a big pain is that there's no way to update the dependencies after project generation

automatic dep bumping would be a bit much to ask for.. but is there a place I can easily find the latest dep versions luminus knows work together?

my second biggest pain is when later I realize I want to add a feature to a project after generating it 😕

You can use lein ancient https://github.com/xsc/lein-ancient to get the latest releases, will not guarantee they work well together, but must of the times will do fine.

yeah lein-ancient is what I use as well, but there is the manual testing step involved there