Hey there everyone also fed up with this issue This got so annoying to the point I decided to figure out how to compile the engine from source just to get rid of it. For those of you daring enough, look up the SteamVR.uplugin file under, “Engine\Plugins\Runtime\Steam\SteamVR” Inside you’ll find “EnabledByDefault”: true
Change this to, “EnabledByDefault”: false
then recompile your engine. No more SteamVR by default, not even in new projects.
I’m sure this is similar for any other plugins you want enabled/disabled by default.
I hope this works for/helps someone.