If custom layout is turned on for a content type, then turned off, you are still redirected to change the layout

Hello Steve Hanson,

I have followed steps you have mentioned to reproduce issue.

on this step - Turn off the ability to have a custom layout for each node I am not able to do this step it does not allow to turn off this option without reverting node which has saved with custom layout on, I am not sure how you did it.

so here is the solution of your question - how in heavens name do I find the nodes that were set to have a custom layout so I can revert them?

You can write a custom script where you can find node is using custom layout or not for example:

$node = Node::load($nodeId);
             $entity_display_repository = \Drupal::service('entity_display.repository');
             $view_display = $entity_display_repository
                   ->getViewDisplay($node->getEntityTypeId(), $node->bundle());
             $display = $view_display
                   ->getThirdPartySetting('layout_builder', 'allow_custom');

here $display will have value 1 if node is using custom layout.

Thank you for the script. All I had to do to turn off the custom setting was to turn it off in the display page. I'm a little surprised by all of this since as far as I can remember I never actually MADE any custom layouts, though I may have accidentally made one that was identical to the default.

So is the implication here that if I revert any custom ones and then turn off the ability to make custom ones that the automatic redirect will stop?

Oh, I think I understand. The odd behavior is because I am using the Varbase distribution and the Varbase layout builder landing page is apparently what is letting me disable the custom layouts. If I turn that module off I can no longer disable the custom layouts, which at least makes sense. I will go bother the Varbase folks. Thanks.

@SteveHanson As the issue does not seem related to Drupal Core, I am closing this issue.
Please feel free to re-open in case you do not agree.
Thanks.