Most likely an oversight, however i cannot load this mod at all due to k2 and k2so being incompatible together, yet this mod is dependent on k2 and does not load without it.
it's not? unless that's for 2.1, which i have not played yet, but for 2.0 at least its impossible to load k2 and k2so simultaneously as k2so marks k2 as incompatible
Ah, it does look like that was a change made for 2.1
I may upload a fixed version later but I don't plan to support 2.0 once 2.1 is out of experimental.
I just pushed a quick fix that removed the hard dependency on K2 just to allow launching with K2SO.
This is just a dirty fix and will cause a startup crash if attempted to launch without either of those mods.