For many usecases like the acquire system libapt-pkg actually needs tools and config found in the apt package. apt tends to be installed everywhere libapt-pkg appears usually anyhow, but just in case to nudge users (and tools) in the right direction. Note that this isn't and shouldn't be a hard depends as there are usecases working perfectly without 'apt' and as this is such an esoteric problem incurring the costs arising from a Depends-Breaks-loop isn't deemd as worth it.
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