auto_install feature in manifests can become quite a nightmare as one ends up with dozens of unwanted modules loaded into a project. For example I now see all of the l10n_XX modules to be loaded.
OCA has a fine module to cope with this problem https://github.com/OCA/server-tools/tree/18.0/module_change_auto_install
However it seems this is not probably not working with dob?
Is there any solution in dob in order to skip loading modules with auto-install: True?