@pixi/assets v6 default scale mode not propagating to loaded textures

[TheAlmightyOne]

HI, I'm loading assets with the new @pixi/assets wrapper and setting default scaleMode before loading doesn't work - baseTextures still have scaleMode set to 1(linear).
I manually set loaded texture data like so

const defaultScaleMode = { scaleMode: PIXI.SCALE_MODES.NEAREST };
const addAssetWithDefaults = (alias, source) => Assets.add(alias, source, defaultScaleMode);

addAssetWithDefaults('player', 'public/images/player_16.png');

Unfortunately that didn't propagate to json Spritesheets's related textures.
 

addAssetWithDefaults('player_idle', 'public/images/player/player_idle_new.json');

Is there a current documentation on how to properly set that up? In fact loading spritesheets from json doesn't quite work, I had to change line:60 in spritesheet.js to

this.baseTexture = texture instanceof core.BaseTexture || !this._texture ? texture : this._texture.baseTexture;

just so that the Spritesheet can have it's corresponding baseTexture. 

I literally read all related errors that were posted, but didn't do that trick for handling loading errors I was getting.
Happy to provide more info/examples.

[TheAlmightyOne]

I think I know the issue now. I was likely using @pixi packages with pixi.js imported like so. Still having trouble with the switch all the way from v3 to v6 but it's at least getting somewhere

import * as PIXI from 'pixi.js'