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Switching the rating flag off is not enough while card badges and aggregateRating markup still ship. My notes on sweeping every surface clean.
TL;DR: Switching off ratings hid the detail page section but cards and JSON-LD still showed the old score from cached property data. That mismatch between what users see and what crawlers read risks spam penalties. Now the rating_enabled flag gates both the UI badge and the structured data so everything disappears together.