Concluding this means that a setup with activated ipv6 package but with deactivated ipv6 forwarding is almost the same (accept traffic to an from the Mikrotik device) as a setup with deactivated / not installed ipv6 package?
Almost, but not quite - activating the IPv6 package on a router that is already set up will not generate IPv6 firewall rules, and the automatic link-local addresses will therefore be unprotected. Someone on the same subnet as your WAN interface could use the link local and winbox or SSH into your router if there was no password set.
The safest thing to do if you want to activate the package is to activate the package and then reset the router to factory defaults - the factory defaults include the v6 firewall if you reset to them after the IPv6 package has been enabled. If you do not want to have to reset the router to factory defaults, you can issue the command
/system default-configuration print
to see the MikroTik factory default configuration and copy and paste in the ipv6 firewall rule section from that to your router's live config.