So, I have been digging around and found that there is a "disable_detail_view" setting for conf.ini (we didn't have it in our conf.ini, seems our version of xataface had detail view enabled by default).
Setting it to 0 or 1 works as expected in our old xataface version, but when I put it into the conf.ini of the version 3 app, it has no effect.
Does anybody know whether this feature is deprecated?