Do you recon HQM could provide the same feel as the old FTB though? If there's no extravagant mechanical construct to feed then it can't really be a FTB map.
I think you could make it so so you can't craft or obtain a HQM book and have everything handed in via the QDS, but then how do you handle the rewards. I think you need the book for that so making the book inaccessible would be stupid.
Maybe The HQM team could make a reward delivery block to compliment the QDS.
HQM in its current state couldn't give quite the same feel, but I think that could be improved somewhat by letting the QDS output into chests or something rather than directly into your inventory (assuming it can't already do that, I'm not very familiar). Or even better, a ComputerCraft interface, which could certainly allow for more of the traditional style of map with varying lights and unlockable passages and everything.