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That's a lot of speculation. Why wouldn't Google care about losing user data? Especially for such an important setting.

This definitely sounds like a bug worth tracking down. If you're interested in using your account as example, it would be helpful to file in-app feedback including at least the following two things:

1. "I grant permission to look at my account metadata to debug this issue"

2. An easily searchable tag like #OriginalSetting