I realize that this is over a month old, but upon messing around with 1.18 for the first time, what I'm noticing is that this means that forge no longer alerts you of missing dependencies unless you look in the logs, and just crashes, correct?
Is this because it's in beta and will be fixed - and if not, how would we petition to have that functionality re-added? Considering the error it produces isn't accurate, I can see this creating a lot more error reports.