After reading your update post, naturally i had to download this and peek inside meta. ??
To be fair you have about 70 presets (every single one of them can have impact on dependencies).
Didn't search inside them, however i did look inside your main scene and subscenes.
Based on that
only 2 references caught my attention
Gegecucu.Happy_Game.4 &
TOM_ACE.FGNDLook.latest
With first one you have Skinny Jeans equipped inside your main scene (maybe inside one of presets as well), but not correct package reference.
Instead of
jakuubz.Skinny_Jeans.1 (with 0 dependencies) you use same Jeans from
Gegecucu.Happy_Game.4 (with 15 dependencies).
And second one less important
TOM_ACE.FGNDLook.latest, i'll mention it only because it's not hub hosted...4 dependencies there, that's nothing.
You use
TikTok_Makeup(drunkenness).png face decal from that package inside main scene (maybe in one of presets as well).
Possible 10% reduction in dependencies is no major impact (compared to 143).
My guess there are some morphs/pose morphs, preset textfield saved inside those presets...but way too many to look through.
To be fair most of your dependencies are used, not many unused sub-dependencies either.
Based on the way this scene/package is constructed, i doubt total number can even go bellow 100 (it's just the nature of scene, not your fault). ?
