Hi there. Sorry for responding late. I only checked this place every now and then because it never had any messages.
I didn't know that it also shows without Quality. I haven't played without it since it released and kind of assumed that it wouldn't show in base game without quality. That sounds like an omission on the devs' side, but changing the dependency is a no-issue for me.
Will do in a moment.
Edit. Done. Dependency is now optional.
Edit2. I've just realized that you said "It seems that any mod which requires DLC features (e.g. Enable All Feature Flags) will force them to be shown".
The dependency is still made optional, but I wanted to make it clear that I omitted that and rushed to solve the issue so the content of my original comment was a bit misguided and neither developers or the modders were at fault, just me.