Yes. This is currently hardcoded. I am not using those mods and using larger stacks will severely throw of the speed calculations.
I just spend four grueling weeks trying to get the speeds right for the mods that the loader supports and I more than once cursed the moment when I chose to take on additional mod support. I have no plans to revisit this any time soon unless there is a "ready-to-merge, tested PR" that does not throw off all the currently supported loaders.
Sorry, but I really do not want to see factorio mod code for a while.