Edge 116 does not respect NewTabPageLocation policy

AndrewSAIF 

After some additional testing, I found that the policy applies correctly if I move it from Recommended to Mandatory. The documentation still shows that it can be applied either way. 

Perhaps this would be a good opportunity to address the issue where this policy is advertised as Recommended or Mandatory in its documentation, but acts like a mandatory policy regardless? 
Edge Group Policy BUG with New TAB PAGE - RECOMMENDED is getting ENFORCED and not changeable. - Microsoft Community Hub

My preferred outcome here would be the team adding a way for users to select between New Tab URL defined in the policy and the Edge New Tab experience when the policy is set as recommended. This has been something other organizations have echoed over the years. It's also the most common negative feedback I receive from my users. The situation is exacerbated by how convoluted the explanation is ("We do have it applied as recommended, so you should be able to change it. However...")

If the team is committed to ignoring our feedback and never fixing this, I feel like the documentation should be updated to indicate that this is only available as a mandatory policy. Especially now that it is simply broken as Recommended. If this is the route you go, the policy should also throw an error in edge://policy when applied as Recommended and not disable the New Tab settings when applied this way. 

Hopefully this feedback is helpful. Thanks!
Andrew