[MC-296406] Locator Bar associated NBT appears on worlds without the experiment enabled

Reproduction Steps

CREATE NEW WORLD. WITHOUT LOCATOR BAR ENABLED
Spawn a Ghast or some mob into the world.
use /data get entity on the Ghast you spawned.
OBSERVE the attached screenshot thereby this ticket provides quite elegantly in the attachments.

ACTUAL BEHAVIOR

The ghast will have this NBT: (see attached image)

EXPECTED

I expect this not to appear, since /gamerule and the /waypoint commands are not available for locator bar.

Suggested fix

Disable any and all data, NBT, interaction, features, whatsoever, with this locator bar thing, on players, entities, mobs, blocks etc. etc. from appearing, being saved, being transmitted, being distributed or otherwise processed by the game. When the experiment and datapack for it are toggled off.

Linked issues

is duplicated by 1

MC-296415 locator_bar_icon nbt showing up even though locator bar expiriment not on Resolved

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Sebexan 2025-04-08T17:51:40Z

Can confirm

[MCQA] v-jakublu 2025-04-09T14:35:20Z

Thank you for your report!
However we will need reproduction steps in order to further investigate the issue.
Please provide repro steps in the coming manner:
Repro steps:
1. Open snapshot
2. ....
3. ...

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AgentM 2025-04-12T18:55:54Z

For your exquisite request I shall formalize the description for thee. Even tho it already was quite clear…

[MCQA] Zgajak 2025-04-14T11:44:31Z

Hi!

Can you please record a video showcasing this issue?
Also please write exact command you are using.

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AgentM 2025-04-16T04:33:57Z

Why do you need a video? It's literally 2 steps.

Spawn a mob. Check their data. A Mojang employee has personally already confirmed the bug and asked me to report it. How much more do you need?

`/data get entity @n[type=ghast]` returns the data seen in screenshot.

That's the bug.

I am unable to put a video on here.