I simply pointed out that saying “17.1 is not the latest” is not a helpful answer. AFAICT, 17.1 is the latest (Kodi) version.
In post #16 I referred to another thread in which the confusion between OSMC and Kodi versions was resolved. As I also explained in post #16 “Release 2017.03-1 comes in two versions: 17.1-RC2 and 17.1”.
Perhaps it might have been wiser for the OSMC version to have been incremented to 2017.03-2 with Kodi 17.1 but that’s not how it was released.
the easiest way to replicate the issue is simply change your skin to another than the original, than do a view reboots and after a view reboots your settings will be deleted (skin, language, all is default again)