I'm currently on a mission to reduce dependency counts in a project, and pin-project is one offender.
Most of the ecosystem has switched over to pin-project-lite where possible, so it ends up in every dependency chain.
pin-project was already replaced with pin-project-lite in tracing-futures quite a while ago in #1185 , but there never was a new release that includes this change.
It would be great to see new release.