Description of feature
In formulaic 1.1, a new property factor_contrasts
has been introduced that allows to introspect some properties of factors. This should allow us to simplify our custom materializer and in the best case get rid of it entirely.
See
matthewwardrop/formulaic#169 (comment)
and
https://github.com/matthewwardrop/formulaic/blob/28fd9ec2d66b0f4c3fab439445e2e3a78174e9ca/formulaic/model_spec.py#L334-L361