This issue is two pronged, I'm not sure if they are two separate issues or if the specific mechanism for how the evaluation "expired" resulted in the the latter issue of some settings being lost, but either way I don't expect this is intended destructive behavior.

I recently did an in-place activation on Windows Server 2022 that changed it from an Evaluation Edition to Standard Edition, activation was performed using the command:
As a result after the computer rebooted BI5 activation seemed to reset and revert to an evaluation copy.

After reactivating BI I noticed some settings had been wiped such as camera groups.

Fortunately there are the settings backups in the program folder to restore, but I still believe this issue should be resolved.