Trying to turn off coordinates activates gamerule?

Couldn't reproduce. However, I'll tell you that the coordinates are indeed a gamerule, but you don't need cheats enabled to enable or disable them, just like other gamerules like pvp, showdeathmessages, etc.

The world was created before the update, so that might have something to do with it

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