This lib is highly popular and its size is huge. It gets included in many mods so the modpack with 80 mods is 40 MB bigger in size than needed.
Or maybe you can release an additional one without cloth?

Jar size would go down 1100 KB >> 280 KB

mm good point, hadn't considered the impact on modpacks at all. Thanks

All the Modrinth releases since this change are missing the Cloth Config requirement.

huh! added those now thanks