avast tray icon issue

I think about 2 years ago, I was an Avast premium user and submitted an issue that had been going on for decades with the tray icon (all Windows computers - XP, Vista, 7, 10, laptops/desktops, everywhere Windows). This was the issue: If you have the “Show Avast tray icon” unchecked in the Notifications, and restart Windows/File Explorer, the tray icon shows itself, and a look in the Settings shows that it’s still unchecked. You’d have to check it, then uncheck it again to hide it.
Upon the engineering’s team review, they said it was impossible to fix, and closed the ticket. Some few months later, they actually DID fix it, with no communication to anyone; I just happened to stumble on it. I was pleased despite hearing back that it was an impossibilty.
Sadly though, we’re now at the point where avast has yet again broken the “show avast tray icon”. THIS time it shows up when first logging into a machine – just log out of a Windows account, log back in and it shows – and again, the box is unchecked. Check the box, uncheck the box to hide it again. Any chance support can fix this? Who else experiences this?

There are a few topics about this issue and an Avast Team member has indicated this will be fixed in the next release.