Certain Wants and Fears despite option turned off

I never play with wants and fears. I find them to be quite annoying, so I have it turned off. Why am I still getting wants and fears? If it's turned off, there should not be little cloud bubbles of wants over the active sim's profile window.

I only have MCCC installed.

I've been having the same issues. It's been fine, but since "Lovestruck" came out, as well as "Life and Death," for that matter, these stupid wants keep popping up, all of them of the romantic issue. And it's a pain in the neck having to keep going into the Gameplay settings, and turning them on, and then turning them off again. And every time my Sims age from Teen, to Young Adult, to Adult, to Elder, they have another Want popping up.

I have mods, but I doubt it's a mod issue since there are people having the same issue here who play without mods.

Same issue here and across all saves. I do play with mods but it remains when I go vanilla. 

what I could find tracing back all those wants/fears: performing romantic interaction -> loot_Want_PushReactionary_... -> whimset_Social_... -> Hold Hands/Embrace/Kiss/Give Massage/Ask on a Date/WooHoo/Play Woo-Who!? (LS) - seemingly no check if turned off in settings

anyone having issues with wants other than those listed here still showing up? like trait/venue based or from tarot cards?

edit: Designate Heirloom is also triggered by an interaction (via loot_action)

Wants and fears have never turned off properly for me in since their addition to the game.  And since the Legacy pack, it's gotten worse.  Kids age up with them enabled (but the setting is off).  After that, it filters to the parents then seems to fade out again eventually.