How to gracefully handle differences in command options between different versions?

Inspired by What is the difference between “base64 -b0” in macOS versions prior to macOS 13 (Ventura) and “base64 -i” in macOS 13 (Ventura)? Are there common ways to avoid the script breaking on a system with a different version of a command, at least when you know what the differences are? Would checking the command --version or --help output and calling it with different options make sense?