Starting new 8.5 site is it safe to delete and reuse field_image field I am starting a new 8.5 website and using the core media module. I want to know if it is safe to delete the field_image field from the Article content type and replace it with a field with the same name but instead make it a media reference field. I have searched high and low and it is not clear as to if this will cause me issues with future versions of Drupal.

Thanks in advance
Any field could be deleted and re-created per your preferences and it won't cause any problems in the future as Drupal 8 does not require fields of certain machine names to be of certain types only.