diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index c89697d3..911613e8 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ CommonSolve = "0.2"
 ConcreteStructs = "0.2"
 DiffEqBase = "6.176.0, 7.0"
 Documenter = "1"
-ExplicitImports = "1"
 FastClosures = "0.3"
 ForwardDiff = "0.10, 1"
 Functors = "0.4, 0.5"
@@ -51,7 +50,7 @@ PrecompileTools = "1.2.1"
 Random = "1.10"
 SciMLBase = "2, 3.3"
 SciMLSensitivity = "7.43"
-SciMLTesting = "1"
+SciMLTesting = "1.7"
 StableRNGs = "1"
 Static = "1"
 SteadyStateDiffEq = "2.5.0"
@@ -62,7 +61,6 @@ julia = "1.10"
 [extras]
 Aqua = "4c88cf16-eb10-579e-8560-4a9242c79595"
 Documenter = "e30172f5-a6a5-5a46-863b-614d45cd2de4"
-ExplicitImports = "7d51a73a-1435-4ff3-83d9-f097790105c7"
 ForwardDiff = "f6369f11-7733-5829-9624-2563aa707210"
 Functors = "d9f16b24-f501-4c13-a1f2-28368ffc5196"
 GPUArraysCore = "46192b85-c4d5-4398-a991-12ede77f4527"
@@ -82,4 +80,4 @@ Test = "8dfed614-e22c-5e08-85e1-65c5234f0b40"
 Zygote = "e88e6eb3-aa80-5325-afca-941959d7151f"
 
 [targets]
-test = ["Aqua", "Documenter", "ExplicitImports", "ForwardDiff", "Functors", "GPUArraysCore", "InteractiveUtils", "LuxCUDA", "LuxTestUtils", "MLDataDevices", "NLsolve", "NonlinearSolve", "OrdinaryDiffEq", "OrdinaryDiffEqAdamsBashforthMoulton", "SafeTestsets", "SciMLSensitivity", "SciMLTesting", "StableRNGs", "Test", "Zygote"]
+test = ["Aqua", "Documenter", "ForwardDiff", "Functors", "GPUArraysCore", "InteractiveUtils", "LuxCUDA", "LuxTestUtils", "MLDataDevices", "NLsolve", "NonlinearSolve", "OrdinaryDiffEq", "OrdinaryDiffEqAdamsBashforthMoulton", "SafeTestsets", "SciMLSensitivity", "SciMLTesting", "StableRNGs", "Test", "Zygote"]
diff --git a/src/DeepEquilibriumNetworks.jl b/src/DeepEquilibriumNetworks.jl
index 2f2a1950..22f103f3 100644
--- a/src/DeepEquilibriumNetworks.jl
+++ b/src/DeepEquilibriumNetworks.jl
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ using FastClosures: @closure
 using Random: Random, AbstractRNG, randn!
 using SciMLBase: SciMLBase, AbstractNonlinearAlgorithm, AbstractODEAlgorithm,
     NonlinearSolution, ODESolution, ODEFunction, ODEProblem,
-    SteadyStateProblem, _unwrap_val
+    SteadyStateProblem
 using SciMLSensitivity: SteadyStateAdjoint, GaussAdjoint, ZygoteVJP
 using Static: StaticSymbol, StaticInt, known, static
 
diff --git a/src/utils.jl b/src/utils.jl
index 9e45f5f0..c5707ebb 100644
--- a/src/utils.jl
+++ b/src/utils.jl
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+# Mirror of SciMLBase's internal `_unwrap_val` (a `_`-prefixed internal that will not be
+# made public). Reproduced locally so `Val`-wrapped depth/scale specs can be unwrapped
+# without depending on a non-public binding.
+_unwrap_val(::Val{B}) where {B} = B
+_unwrap_val(B) = B
+
 @generated function split_and_reshape(x::AbstractMatrix, ::Val{idxs}, ::Val{shapes}) where {
         idxs, shapes,
     }
diff --git a/test/qa/Project.toml b/test/qa/Project.toml
index 123b618f..496c3cfb 100644
--- a/test/qa/Project.toml
+++ b/test/qa/Project.toml
@@ -2,14 +2,12 @@
 Aqua = "4c88cf16-eb10-579e-8560-4a9242c79595"
 DeepEquilibriumNetworks = "6748aba7-0e9b-415e-a410-ae3cc0ecb334"
 Documenter = "e30172f5-a6a5-5a46-863b-614d45cd2de4"
-ExplicitImports = "7d51a73a-1435-4ff3-83d9-f097790105c7"
 Lux = "b2108857-7c20-44ae-9111-449ecde12c47"
 NonlinearSolve = "8913a72c-1f9b-4ce2-8d82-65094dcecaec"
 OrdinaryDiffEq = "1dea7af3-3e70-54e6-95c3-0bf5283fa5ed"
 Random = "9a3f8284-a2c9-5f02-9a11-845980a1fd5c"
-SafeTestsets = "1bc83da4-3b8d-516f-aca4-4fe02f6d838f"
-SciMLSensitivity = "1ed8b502-d754-442c-8d5d-10ac956f44a1"
 SciMLTesting = "09d9d899-5365-40a9-917a-5f67fddea283"
+SteadyStateDiffEq = "9672c7b4-1e72-59bd-8a11-6ac3964bc41f"
 Test = "8dfed614-e22c-5e08-85e1-65c5234f0b40"
 
 [sources]
@@ -18,12 +16,11 @@ DeepEquilibriumNetworks = {path = "../.."}
 [compat]
 Aqua = "0.8"
 Documenter = "1"
-ExplicitImports = "1"
 Lux = "1"
 NonlinearSolve = "4"
 OrdinaryDiffEq = "6.74, 7"
 Random = "1.10"
-SciMLSensitivity = "7.43"
-SciMLTesting = "1"
+SciMLTesting = "1.7"
+SteadyStateDiffEq = "2.5.0"
 Test = "1.10"
 julia = "1.10"
diff --git a/test/qa/qa.jl b/test/qa/qa.jl
index 74f3c884..3c799470 100644
--- a/test/qa/qa.jl
+++ b/test/qa/qa.jl
@@ -1,21 +1,13 @@
-using DeepEquilibriumNetworks, Test
-
-@testset "Aqua" begin
-    using Aqua
-
-    Aqua.test_all(DeepEquilibriumNetworks; ambiguities = false)
-    Aqua.test_ambiguities(DeepEquilibriumNetworks; recursive = false)
-end
-
-@testset "ExplicitImports" begin
-    import SciMLSensitivity
-
-    using ExplicitImports
-
-    @test check_no_implicit_imports(DeepEquilibriumNetworks) === nothing
-    @test check_no_stale_explicit_imports(DeepEquilibriumNetworks) === nothing
-    @test check_all_qualified_accesses_via_owners(DeepEquilibriumNetworks) === nothing
-end
+using SciMLTesting, DeepEquilibriumNetworks, Test
+
+run_qa(
+    DeepEquilibriumNetworks;
+    explicit_imports = true,
+    # `Aqua.test_all`'s default ambiguities check recurses into deps and is noisy; run
+    # it only against this package's own methods (the prior hand-rolled qa.jl disabled
+    # the recursive sweep and called `test_ambiguities(...; recursive = false)`).
+    aqua_kwargs = (; ambiguities = (; recursive = false)),
+)
 
 @testset "Doctests" begin
     using Documenter