Is the dependency under the VG link? Also I'm a huge fan of this development for fruit trees yielding wood now. Before I felt like there wasn't a good reason to grow fruit trees as opposed to berries and such. The yield-per day and long grow times were just underwhelming, but now that they drop wood they're definitely a strong contender, especially on ice sheets or other such cold biomes. Hell even in deserts now I would say.
Edit: Also. I don't know if I'm right about this but it seams to be the case that bamboo counts as lumber without ever being made into lumber, so it doesn't seem that it can be used for fueling stoves with expanded woodworking. Is it possible to make bamboo work as fuel at least or no? Because after playing and setting my people not to make all the logs into lumber I've come more in line with your reasoning, but since bamboo kinda acts as logs and lumber in VG I was wondering what your take on that was.