symlink persist?

[Grizzly]

Hi

I fired up 23.10, renamed my Pictures dir (to falbackPictures), then

$ln -s path_to_22.04_home_Pictures Pictures
$ls Pictures

all looked as it should,

went to Settings to check that I could also see contents of Pictures when 
setting background, all looked good, background set to pic in (linked) Pictures
dir

deleted falbackPictures

went back to Settings to check that I could still see contents of Pictures when
setting background, still looked good

shutdown now -r

on reboot background had defaulted to a Lobster (not Minotaur ??)

went to Settings, now cant see contents of Pictures to set background

$ln -s path_to_22.04_home_Pictures Pictures
$ls Pictures

all looked as it should, went to Settings, still couldn't see contents of 
Pictures to set background

Looked in (linked) Pictures from filemanager, right-click a picture, select 
"use
as wallpaper" (or similar wording, on wrong box now)

went back to desktop, background still Lobster

should a symlink persist? did I miss a step,

the 22.04 disk is auto mounted (AFAIK) at boot, it is always there on the 
launcher/dock