Is failing a test via this.currentTest.state = 'failed' acceptable?

[tvsbrent]

I'm currently working on a plugin that, in its afterEach hook, needs to check if a certain action completed as expected. Initially, I was using an expect assertion, but thought I'd "up my game" a bit by writing a custom Cypress.log to provide plugin-specific details about the failure. Since having both an error log and the expect assertion was confusing, I poked around and found that if I set this.currentTest.state = 'failed' the test would fail. So now I'm writing a custom Cypress log and setting the test to fail via that property, which is the experience I'm looking for.

However, I'm concerned that the state property on currentTest might be considered an internal implementation detail of Cypress (or Mocha?). That could, in turn, lead to this not working in the future or causing conflicts with other plugins. So, does anyone know if it is acceptable to set that value on currentTest?