Oh fabulous, thank you!
I have it installed.

What do you mean temporary?

I solved this by finding another posters update in the BP.org forum, thank goodness they updated…
By installing BP Classic

Then setting those 3 pages there.
After you install it go to Settings > Buddy Press Pages and sure enough, now those three pages are unset. I had already created those three pages so I just set those three in those settings, then clicked Save in Permalinks (didn’t change the format, just clicked Save)
And FINALLY that most annoying message is gone 🙂

Yes but I want it to be the author of a post to display both display name and profile photo.
I am doing it now with Publish Press author plugin, but the shortcode doesn’t have a profile photo parameter that I see.

So, I’m realizing that in the BuddyPress universe, I don’t know how it would work. I have a template, so the shortcode I have which displays the display name based on the author of that particular post (based on the template).

Is there anything like that in the BuddyPress ecosystem?

Thank you so much! I have since decided to give Youzify a try. After reading many posts about it in your forums, it looks like there are many compatibility issues. Not your fault, I know. Will the code you so generously provided here for default cover photos by role work in the context of Youzify do you think? I don’t believe they offer that capability.