I would really like to see this feature in anope 1.9, there is is absolutely no reason not to have the owner mode (+q) be just as standard as any of the others, with AUTOOWNER OWNER and OWNERME access levels and such, default of being disabled of course but still there.
This is not to be confused with the founder, only the true founder can make any changes to the channel (unless of course the SET level is changed). Not having this does not increase security in the slightest bit, to think that is totally naive. The +q channel mode does not give users some superpowers or something, its simply another level of op separation, which is always useful.
It doesn't make sense to have to use a module (which is basically just a hack) to do something that clearly should be part of the core and is a very very simple thing to add.