Well, we’re getting into how to choose metaphors here. Not being literal, there’s always room to stretch. Still, you try to choose a metaphor with characteristics congruent with the topic.

With a minefield, you can be doing something perfectly reasonable, with eyes open and even paying attention yet nevertheless it can blow up on you.

Here, though, there’s no special peril. If you just follow the standard everything will be fine.

If this is a minefield, then practically everything in software development is equally a minefield and the metaphor loses its power.

(Later in the article they touch on something that is a minefield — updating dependencies. There’s probably a good article about that to be written.)