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A little bit of the old derp form yours truly. Magento 2’s
module.xml file contain a <sequence/> node that acts like the old <depends/> from Magento 1’s app/etc/modules declaration files. There’s a small catch though – in order to make Magento recognize changes to your sequence, you need to run
bin/magento module:disable My_Module
bin/magento module:enable My_Module
That’s because Magento determines the sequence order by reading app/etc/config.php, and the order in app/etc/config.php is generated once – when Magento enables your module.