Item Naming convention for Database Items

The name field for the libraries entries in a .kicad_dbl behaves differently than the native KiCad libraries in the Symbol Chooser. The name for a .kicad_dbl library is “included as a prefix in each symbol name placed from this sub-library.” By contrast, a when a native KiCad library is expanded to show each symbol, the library name is not included as a prefix.

Is there a way to only show the name at the top level of the library (before it is expanded), and not include it is an item-level prefix?

Database library behavior:

Note the redundant 5_Capacitors/ prefix in front of every item.

Desired behavior:

Note the items in the Audio category do not appear as Audio/AD1853, Audio/AD1855, …

No. Without the prefix, KiCad cannot know what library the part came from, because nothing guarantees that a part called 5-00001 only appears in one place in the database.