Switching to Bake Mesh Maps mode kills my QtWidget window, any workaround?

Our studio uses a tool that needs to stay open throughout the entire work session, in fact it has it's own Open Project button that also call a bunch of other functions that load metadata associated with the asset, sets up export paths an so on.  Substance v 9.0 seems to destroy my QT dialog when I go into Bake Mode, which is unacceptable in our current pipeline. Any way to avoid that?

Here is an example of how I create my plugin window:

class PluginWidget01(QtWidgets.QWidget):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        super(PluginWidget01, self).__init__(parent)
        self.init_ui()

    def init_ui(self):
	# UI elemenents here

    # As well as UI functions and connections



class MyPlugin:
    def __init__(self):
        self.widget = PluginWidget01()
        main_window = substance_painter.ui.get_main_window()
        self.dock_widget = QtWidgets.QDockWidget('Exporter 0.1', main_window)
        self.dock_widget.setObjectName('PluginWidget01')
        self.dock_widget.setWidget(self.widget)

        self.dock_widget.setAllowedAreas(QtCore.Qt.TopDockWidgetArea | QtCore.Qt.LeftDockWidgetArea)

        main_window.addDockWidget(QtCore.Qt.LeftDockWidgetArea, self.dock_widget)

        plugin_widgets.append(self.dock_widget)

def start_plugin():
    close_plugin()
    MyPlugin()

 
Any help would be greatly appreciated