All Assists reset to Easy after each start of the sim in 1.21.13.0

Are you on Steam or Microsoft Store version?
Steam

Are you using Developer Mode or made changes in it?
No

Brief description of the issue:
All Assists in the assists menu reset to Easy after each start up of the sim.

Build Version # when you first started experiencing this issue:
1.21.13.0

Please see:
https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/all-assistance-options-automatically-gets-set-to-easy-every-time-you-relaunch-the-sim/472209

I will close this as a duplicate and ask to continue in the thread linked.
I also would ask for confirmation in that thread. I was not able to reproduce but please read my post and check.
Thanks!