Sorry for the delay @dave27 , I figured it out! I should have tested this before, the problem is with the “smart detections” under the “event recording” section for each camera. This area apparently completely overrides anything set in “notifications” section. I suspect this is some oddity with cam plus lite, becuase trying to enable “smart detection events” from “all motion events” it hits me up for a subscription. However I am able to still change my “smart detections” at the bottom which did have “person” enabled and was persistently notifying me regardless of settings in “notifications”.
TLDR;
“Event Recording”: Record motion events - enabled, Record sound events - enabled, Smart Detections - all disabled
“Notifications”: Notifications - enabled, Motion events - all disabled
“Alarm Settings” Smoke alarm sound and CO alarm sound - enabled