The steps to test this being disabled is because policy changes could have it set to false. I think this should be fixed, but I don't personally think it's worth blocking or uplifting.
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Policy changes could have it set to false by default, so it's not just a pref flip. I think this should be fixed, but I don't personally think it's worth blocking or uplifting.