[Bug]: The pinned top sites and sponsored tiles are still available after disabling the "Shortcuts" option

[SoftVision-CosminMuntean]

Prerequisites:

• Have at least one pinned top site available.
• Have at least one sponsored tile available.

Steps to reproduce

1. Open the Nightly browser.
2. Tab the "Hamburger" menu.
3. Tap the "Customize homepage.
4. Disable the "Shortcuts" option.
5. Return to the homepage and observe the top sites section.

Expected behaviour

• The top sites section is no longer displayed.

Actual behaviour

• The pinned top sites and the Sponsored tiles are still available.

Device name

One Plus 8 Pro

Android version

Android 11

Firefox release type

Firefox Nightly

Firefox version

99.0a1

Device logs

No response

Additional information

• Only the history tiles disappear after disabling the "Shortcuts" option.

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[kbrosnan]

Talked with Verdi about the behavior. We want to change this to behave like desktop. The shortcut toggle will disable the entire top sites section. This pref should be reset for existing users, because this behavior is changing dramatically. Sponsored shortcuts only disables the sponsored shortcuts, not any default pined sites. Sponsored shortcuts checkbox would be disabled if the whole feature is disabled.

[SoftVision-CosminMuntean]

I have verified this issue using Nightly 100.0a1 local build on Android 11 on One Plus 8 device.

• The entire "Top Sites" section correctly disappears if the "Shortcuts" option is disabled.