Haha sorry, I didn't mean to insinuate that. It's a tiny button though and not obvious. Was just taking a guess because it can be easy to miss and some of our users did at first.

I first opened my personal Linear account in 2020 and the default was no Cycles. I created a new team in that account today and it's the default.

I opened new one somewhat recently (2 months ago) for my company and the default was to have them off too.

The docs for Cycles say that here too: https://linear.app/docs/use-cycles#configure

Maybe you didn't have admin permissions on your team? Not sure.