So I managed to find a way to turn of this feature which is rather merciful as its really annoying and provides no tangible benefits (still not possible by Automation Ops as far as I know despite the documentation claiming so).
In order to turn it off entirely on your machine, go to your UiPath Install folder, navigate to the ‘Profiles’ folder and open the ‘Development.json’ file. In this file find the key ‘EnableLibrarySplitToDesignAndRuntime’ and set it to false and for good measure do the same for the key ‘EnableProcessSplitToDesignAndRuntime’.
I hope this helps some people 
Please turn this off by default UiPath or at least give a good reason for such inconvinience in package management introduced by this.