removing the boot and enable button from the pico dev 4

[jabriol]

Hello, I have almost completed my project using an esp32 pico d4.1 on the eval board. I want to build my own board, The question I have is as follows.:
Can I remove the boot and reset button function once the project is working? I would also like to remove the USB and UART chip and power my project using a 3.7 battery, which would be also a batt charging circuit. any advice? my project consists of measuring the temperature at a distance using an MLX Sensor (yeah it is COVID related)