Missing dependency on core Options module

I'm getting the following fatal error when installing the module on a clean D8 installation using the minimal profile:

The "list_string" plugin does not exist. Valid plugin IDs for Drupal\Core\Field\FieldTypePluginManager are: datetime, daterange, file_uri, file, text, text_long, text_with_summary, integer, decimal, language, timestamp, email, changed, created, float, string_long, boolean, map, string, uri, uuid, entity_reference, password

This is because the module depends on the optional "Options" module but doesn't declare this.

You can not uninstall the Sitewide Alert module afterwards if you do not enable the Options module before attempting an install.

If you find this issue before it is addressed, I had to manually create an empty table named "sitewide_alert" with columns "id" and "vid" within my database in order to have Sitewide Alert complete the uninstall via "drush pmu sitewide_alert".