Can't change transmission power without debug?

[thekurtovic]

I wanted to make sure my esp32-s3 was using the highest value for transmission power, but for some reason it doesn't seem to change unless I have sdkconfig.h setup with these.
CONFIG_NIMBLE_CPP_LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG=y
CONFIG_NIMBLE_CPP_LOG_LEVEL=4

Testing with code like this
btStarted();
NimBLEDevice::init("test");
int before = NimBLEDevice::getPower();
Serial.printf("ble power before %i\n", before);
NimBLEDevice::setPower(ESP_PWR_LVL_P9);
int after = NimBLEDevice::getPower();
Serial.printf("ble power after %i\n", after);

Output without debug
ble power before 3
ble power after 3

Output with debug
ble power before 3
D (3534) NimBLEDevice: >> setPower: 11 (type: 11)
D (3534) NimBLEDevice: << setPower
ble power after 9

[h2zero]

This may be an issue with espressif, this library simply calls the espressif function to set the power level.