I think it’s quite natural that it does it since you are getting the field but I would too very much appreciate a way to sidestep the filter because if you’re calling get_field from within that hook you will end up in an infinite loop. Maybe using a parameter for the get_field_object method?
So it turns out this was because I was using a relatively consuming task to dynamically populate a select field. I was not aware that this needed to be run when simply retrieving the value of the select field. Why is this?
I can only agree – It would be highly desirable to be able to collapse the rows…
I’m looking for the exact same functionality – it would be very powerful to have it as a part of ACF but until then, have you seen any examples of someone doing something like this or hints on where to look?