Updating plugin should restore "enabled" setting

Because of "mod_rewrite" being detected by the plugin "Problems" as disabled in the hosting server (even though the admin confirmed it is active) we have changed its "enabled" setting to false.

However, when updating the plugin, that setting changed back to enabled (naturally, because the problems.yaml file is included in the update package).

Is there a way to make sure some basic settings such as "enabled" don't get overwritten by updates?

I guess you directly modified the plugin settings in user/plugins/<plugin_name>/<plugin_name>.yaml. Those settings are always overridden by updates. If you want to keep your changes persistent copy those files into your user/config/plugins folder and make your changes there.

Thanks! :) Totally overlooked that :)