[PS/XB] Game preferences resetting

I just had the strangest thing, I just bought horse ranch then restarted the ps5 as I feel it's always good to do after new packs are bought and when I reloaded, for the 1st time in weeks, all my settings hadn't been reset.....but it disconnected my EA account as there was a new privacy policy to agree to. After agreeing it said I must restart the game after linking account again.....low and behold, all settings are reset... It'd be a fix for some people to sign out of EA account but I upload to the gallery quite often.. how odd it reset just because I linked my EA account again??