I really, really loved having Dansen sync'd up in my lab factorissimo... it's almost perfect, but it's missing your mod!

When added it causes issues with "squeak through 2", something about layers needing to be initialized with "collision_mask_util.new_mask" or something? I tried and couldn't figure it out

Wow, I already thought that my mod was of no use to anyone :)
of course it will be, the only reason why I haven't updated it yet (like many other mods) is the debugger hasn't been updated to 2.0, it just so happens that it's hard for me to navigate the API structure if I can't look at the data structure right during development.
In any case, I'll do the porting (I doubt that much needs to be changed there), I hope to do it in a week.

Oh no worries or rush! If you weren't going to update it I was going to try my hand at learning Factorio LUA modding from scratch 👀

ok, if anything I can consider a pull request)