The DX of patch and patch-commit is trailing patch-package by a lot, and makes it very cumbersome to use. The use case for using patching is making commitable changes (a lot) simpler than having to fork a package.

• I'd be willing to implement this feature (contributing guide)

Describe the user story

As a developer I want to be able to patch packages in an effortless way.

Describe the solution you'd like

I'd like to create patches as easy as with patch-package - just modifying node_modules is effortless.

And the upgrade process is even more cumbersome:

• Having to remove the existing patch to be able to upgrade adds a lot to the complexity (patch-package just gives a warning - or an error if the patch cannot be applied anymore).
• I don't currently see an easy way to reapply an existing patch when upgrading a package. One has to go through the entire process of adding a new patch, and manually applying the change again.