Storing a boolean in user preferences

Has anyone ever done this successfully?

I'm having the following issue when I try to do it:

setPreference('key', true);
const preference = await getPreference('key');
console.log(preference, typeof preference); // true, boolean

setPreference('key', false);
const preference = await getPreference('key');
console.log(preference, typeof preference); // {value: false}, object

Payload returns an object with a

property set to false instead of returning

. 🤔

I worked around it doing this:

const preference = await getPreference('key');
setPreference(preference && typeof preference === "boolean");

But I'm wondering if this behavior is a bug or if it's working as intended. 🤔