But you didn’t deactivate yourself, right?!
Otherwise, I think it should stay enabled.
If you follow the thread with those instructions just a bit further, you’ll notice we very quickly discovered that it would just reset to 0 again. That’s why I haven’t recommended that method again after that.
You got lucky, you had the right conditions on your phone (likely down to the patch level being the same or newer than what you had before), but if you didn’t, I’m pretty sure you would have bricked your device.