Thanks. Here's the situation:
1) Rubia does its own version of tech hiding. Before, Discovery Tree would cause Rubia to be unplayable because the two mods would repeatedly disable techs, making it impossible to progress.
2) A month ago, I worked with Villafuk to give Discovery Tree the capability to blacklist Rubian technologies. We tested it, it works.
3) Now Rubia tells discovery tree "Do not touch any Rubian technologies" to ensure that the two mods won't softlock you over tech hiding.
The side effect is that Rubia is not going to implement Discovery Tree style tech hiding, because it would require me to remake the entirety of Discovery tree within my mod, with all the different strartup setting options, just to conditionally apply the matching logic IF Discovery Tree is installed.
The only way I would fulfill this request is if Villafuk additionally adds a remote interface for me to ask Discovery Tree if it would have planned to hide a technology (if I didn't tell it to blacklist my technologies).
Sorry for the jank, but this is the system we have, why we're stuck with it, and what would need to happen to allow me to upgrade.