Sounds more like a UI bug/oversight than intentional deception. Google Maps UI has a feature to display your set home address, once you turn off tracking or wh

Sounds more like a UI bug/oversight than intentional deception. Google Maps UI has a feature to display your set home address, once you turn off tracking or whatever it no longer has access to that home address in its UI so the default state is to ask you to set one. If that's the case then the real problem would be that the address data is siloed off somewhere in your Google account under maps and isn't accessible to be changed/cleared from your general account settings.