In the Drupal 6 dependent fields module... there was a "hide if empty" option. So you could choose if a child field should hide when empty (if it had no dependent results). Therefore removing the unneeded child field... and getting rid of unnecessary UI.
This is quite a substantial UX improvement. Figured it was worth adding to the queue. Thanks!
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