I saw a hide button function in the settings and have a super idea. To make this more survival, you could bind the recipe book button to the knowledege book. This would give the ability to define a recipe for the knowledge book to activate the recipe book button. If Knowledge not in the inventory recipe book button is hidden. As a sideeffect you would make a useless item useful. This could be configurable as gamemode. Maybe could called something like creative mode and survival mode?

I do not understand what you mean

Its my english sry. I try to make screenshots to explain better.

Without item there is no recipe book button.
https://i.imgur.com/g7lDGVE.png (without item in inventory)

if an item is in the inventory the button show up.
https://i.imgur.com/d5McxXW.png (with item in inventory)
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Now you could create easily an item to bind this function, but i would bind it to the knowledge_book, to let the mod just clientside. You dont need to create an item in this case.

Here is my small discord channel, with some modder. I speak german. Maybe there we could communicate easier. https://discord.gg/y8aeTE2