The nameplate verbs now answer as the reference's (`0x489450`-`0x489480`): they flip bits `0x1` (enemy) and `0x8` (friend) of runtime state, write no CVar, and world entry clears both (`0x401639` → `0x6033c0`, after `VARIABLES_LOADED`). The setting persists only through FrameXML's `NAMEPLATES_ON`/`FRIENDNAMEPLATES_ON`, as on 1.12.1.
- The `nameplateShowEnemies`/`nameplateShowFriends` CVar rows and the host's plate push are gone. A player's saved plate setting in `config.toml` moves once into the saved variables at the first world entry.
- benilla's layer keeps what players see today. Its `UpdateNameplates` fix drops the stock show-then-hide (`UIOptionsFrame.lua:775-776`), and it registers `FRIENDNAMEPLATES_ON` for saving, which the stock file never does (`:180-183`). So plates turned on come back after login.
- With the layer off, benilla behaves as 1.12.1: friendly plates are off after entry.
- The V keys flip the verb and the saved global together. V and Shift-V keep their recorded deviation; #570 tracks moving the binding table onto the stock `Bindings.xml`.
Verified:
- New tests for the verbs, the entry clear, the stock-only and layered persistence across entry and reload, the V keys and the one-time migration, each failing with its change undone.
- `scripts/gates.sh` and `scripts/smoke.sh` are green.
- A live run with `WOW_GM=off` turned both kinds on, relogged and read both back, from the file too.
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