modal dialog "your input is requested" prompts in recent (ish) versions of Jupyter Lab

[B JS]

Hi, I recently upgraded to Jupyter Lab 3.1.4, which is overall a huge improvement.  However in python kernels, the "input()" built-in now appears to throw up a rather obtrusive "Your input is requested" modal dialog widget (definition of the behavior appears to be in /staging/node_modules/@jupyterlab/outputarea/lib/widget.js:onInputRequest).  

While I appreciate the motivation for the widget, it becomes annoying rather quickly when "input()" is called a number of times in close succession, much in the same way that Javascript "alert"s easily become flashy and distracting when overused.  Is there any way to suppress the  modal dialog behavior triggered by "input()" via a JSON-based or other  setting/configuration?

Thanks, Ben