Comment 8 for bug 1906877

Ah actually this could happen if you set "Never" in the control panel but either manually created /var/lib/apport/autoreport or installed the apport-noui package.

Unpacking apport-noui (2.20.11-0ubuntu55) ...
Setting up apport-noui (2.20.11-0ubuntu55) ...
bdmurray@clean-hirsute-amd64:~$ gdbus introspect --system --only-properties --dest com.ubuntu.WhoopsiePreferences --object-path /com/ubuntu/WhoopsiePreferences
node /com/ubuntu/WhoopsiePreferences {
  interface com.ubuntu.WhoopsiePreferences {
    properties:
      readonly b ReportCrashes = false;
      readonly b ReportMetrics = true;
      readonly b AutomaticallyReportCrashes = true;
  };
};

I think that's a different bug with gnome-control-center not reading the current state of things when starting up.