Is it bad to use pacifier when baby cries?

It’s definitely a life saviour for mine. Reliant wise, definitely if you use it often, but they will grow out of it. I prefer a happy and peaceful baby over a cry murder one. My LO stopped pacifier on her own at 18m. It was unexpected tho, I was thinking of upsizing her pacifier and changed to another brand, she didn’t like it and when I offered the old one, she thinks it’s the new one so she rejected both. So I took the chance to keep all pacifiers out of her sight and she fully weaned off 😅.