Using the ACF Pro official install method with Bedrock/Trellis

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Follow up to this guide:

Besides installing ACF PRO natively using composer it can also be activated programmatically using a PHP constant:

For a Bedrock site this can be accomplished using an environment variable like ACF_PRO_LICENSE (set in .env standalone or in vault.yml in Trellis):

ACF_PRO_LICENSE='<ACF PRO key here>'

    ACF_PRO_LICENSE: '<ACF PRO key here>'

The environment variable can be set in the base config (as development.php) as PHP constant for being used by ACF PRO:

if (env('ACF_PRO_LICENSE')) {
    Config::define('ACF_PRO_LICENSE', env('ACF_PRO_LICENSE'));
}

That configuration code of Bedrock sites for setting PHP constants from environment variables is considerably growing with each newly added plugin that supports license keys/configuration from PHP constants like this.
It may be a good idea/time to add a standard library or some other mechanism to Bedrock that has a curated collection of these environment variables and PHP constants (and other variables initialized from environment variables).
I have to duplicate quite some code between existing and newly added Bedrock sites just for setting PHP constants and variables from environment variables.

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