diff --git a/pkg/action/sequencing.go b/pkg/action/sequencing.go
index 72851a90a..605f2844c 100644
--- a/pkg/action/sequencing.go
+++ b/pkg/action/sequencing.go
@@ -201,6 +201,7 @@ func (s *sequencedDeployment) applyBatch(ctx context.Context, batch sequence.Bat
 // resources before they are applied to Kubernetes. This prevents K8s API
 // validation errors for annotation keys that are not valid K8s label keys.
 func stripSequencingAnnotations(resources kube.ResourceList) error {
+	sequencingKeys := releaseutil.HelmInternalSequencingAnnotations()
 	return resources.Visit(func(info *resource.Info, err error) error {
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
@@ -214,7 +215,7 @@ func stripSequencingAnnotations(resources kube.ResourceList) error {
 			return nil
 		}
 		changed := false
-		for _, key := range releaseutil.HelmInternalSequencingAnnotations() {
+		for _, key := range sequencingKeys {
 			if _, exists := annotations[key]; exists {
 				delete(annotations, key)
 				changed = true
diff --git a/pkg/cmd/dag.go b/pkg/cmd/dag.go
index 45cff74b2..597d409ed 100644
--- a/pkg/cmd/dag.go
+++ b/pkg/cmd/dag.go
@@ -194,8 +194,7 @@ func printSequencingDAG(chrt *chart.Chart, manifest string, out io.Writer) error
 
 		printChild := func(name string) {
 			if slices.Contains(level.Unresolved, name) {
-				fmt.Fprintf(out, "%s    (subchart %q not found in chart dependencies)\n", indent, name)
-				return
+				fmt.Fprintf(out, "%s    (subchart %q metadata unavailable; sequenced structurally from manifests)\n", indent, name)
 			}
 			if child := levelByPath[level.Path+"/charts/"+name]; child != nil {
 				printLevel(child)