Error appears in DevTools Console ("doesn't contain the link profiles") when Researcher Profiles disabled

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Describe the bug

This error appears to have started after the 8.0 release. But, it's reproducible on both our main and dspace-8_x branches. If you open your browser's DevTools and login, you'll see an error like this in the Console:

main.34ada579bae23bc2.js:1 ERROR Error: 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doesn't contain the link profiles
    at main.34ada579bae23bc2.js:1:279204
    at main.34ada579bae23bc2.js:1:1897441
    at c._next (main.34ada579bae23bc2.js:1:1893835)
    at c.next (main.34ada579bae23bc2.js:1:1882666)
    at main.34ada579bae23bc2.js:1:1897434
    at c._next (main.34ada579bae23bc2.js:1:1893835)
    at c.next (main.34ada579bae23bc2.js:1:1882666)
    at main.34ada579bae23bc2.js:1:1901895
    at c._next (main.34ada579bae23bc2.js:1:1893835)
    at c.next (main.34ada579bae23bc2.js:1:1882666)

Even though this error states that a profiles "link" is missing from a REST API response, it seems like a possible dspace-angular bug with attempting to access the Researcher Profiles when that feature is disabled. (The profiles link relates to Researcher Profiles: https://github.com/DSpace/RestContract/blob/main/profiles.md)

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Ensure Researcher Profiles feature is disabled on the backend. Ensure this setting is commented out in your researcher-profile.cfg or local.cfg: researcher-profile.entity-type = Person
2. Run the UI in production mode.
   • For main, use npm run build:prod; npm run serve:ssr. For dspace-8_x, use yarn run build:prod; yarn run serve:ssr
3. Open up Chrome Dev Tools
4. Visit the homepage. No errors in Chrome Dev Tools
5. Now, login as any user, and you'll see the above error appear in the "Console" of Dev Tools.

Expected behavior

No error should appear in Dev Tools.