Thanks for sharing, I was wondering the same.
At least in my current (2024-01-09) UiPath Studio 2023.4.5 the setting can (now) be made per-project
- with a click on the cog icon “Project Settings”, then immediately under “General” with “Separate Runtime Dependencies”
- which then persists within the project folder into .project\design.json as
"SeparateRuntimeDependencies": false,
(I just wanted to add this to the otherwise already informative thread. Maybe I forget and will find this again in a few months 
)