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Hi, I'm curious what the dangers of lifting a value from an output are?
Assuming that we limit it to `.get()` outputs or Stackreferences, how safe would something like this be (which does work for k8s `ConfigMap.get()`:
```import typing
import pulumi
from pulumi.runtime.sync_await import _sync_await
T_co = typing.TypeVar("T_co", covariant=True)
def extract(o: pulumi.Output[T_co]) -&gt; T_co:
    if not _sync_await(o.is_known()):
        raise RuntimeError("Output is not known yet")
    return _sync_await(o.future())```
(using the hidden `_sync_await` for convenience to lift out an awaitable)

to be clear, not using this in production. Just experimenting

our usecase is we generate namespaces/services based on the contents of a configmap.
Was just seeing if there's a to do it with pulumi machinery (we currently use `python-kubernetes` for it, though this requires us to have an external kubeconfig already setup)