Thank you, the acf_update_setting mentioned in that thread was a help,
With acf_update_setting I was able to get rid of select2, datepicker, timepicker
Then after much searching and help from Query Monitor, I was able to get the handles and figure out alot of the others need to be dequeued through init hook, so through that I was able to get rid of jq touch punch, iris, wp-color-picker and code-editor.
Through the init you can also get rid of jq ui core, jq ui mouse, jq ui sortable & jq ui resizable – unfortuneatly due to how they are all dependencies of each other and other scripts are dependencies/dependants of them, they seem to end up causing errors and breaking things with the main acf js object.
Would be great if there was a way for these not all to be so intertwined however I understand why its like this, it just makes simple text field based forms somewhat pointless in acf_form when compared to other options.
FYI for anyone in the future: I did have to also deregister & dequeue
Figured out a solution that works! Was actually much simpler than I was thinking it was, Here is an example:
<?php
$clone_var = get_sub_field( 'clone_field_name' );
$group_var = $clone_var['group_field_name'];
if( $group_var ) :
$field_var = $group_var['field_name'];
echo $field_var;
endif;
?>
