(note: follow up beyond #3405 and part of JSTEP-7)
Now that we have DatatypeFeature capability and newly created JsonNodeFeature, we can start adding more configurability for JsonNode handling. As per JSTEP-7 let's start with
JsonFeature.READ_NULL_PROPERTIES (default: true)
disabling of which allows "dropping" of NullNodes when reading JSON content as JsonNode.