It's nice to have the option to automatically announce on un-vanish, but it would also be nice to have the option still available to NOT announce. An example is if players guess that I'm online (for whatever reason, like messages from other plugins not being supressed, showing 1/10 connected in the MC server screen, etc.), un-vanishing without a fake join message would be preferred.

If you don't want the automatic announce, then don't give yourself the node?

I want the node, but I want the option to first join without announce on rare occasions. So in other words, after login "/v" will send a fake join message and "/v nfj" will not send it.

Well, because it's less convenient. Isn't that the whole reason the option was put in to begin with? No biggie, it will be a moot point once you get VNP to supress other plugin's personal broadcasts.

Why not just remove that node from yourself and /v fj when you want to? I see no reason to add a complicated thing like that for one user.