POT and sprite cannot be applied at the same time?

[JohnSonLi]

when I applied POT option, the sprite attached to the texture in the project panel is gone, it is so strange, although in the inspector panel the texture type is still Sprite(2d and UI).
is this a unity bug???

[Peter77]

I submitted this issue a while ago, but it has been closed as (does not work) “By Design”:
(Case 945540) 2017.2: Changing “Non Power of 2” setting breaks Sprite references

I received the following reply from Unity Technologies:

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It was reviewed by developers and the verdict is that this issue is a known limitation.
There is a warning for this limit - “Sprites can not be generated from textures with NPOT scaling.”.
What happens here is that the sprite is not generated after changing the texture setting, and thus reference is lost.

The bug-report was closed at this time.

[NEVER-SETTLE]

This is so inconvenient…I hope unity has plans to fix this