Actually redwing, I followed the steps you're doing to check it and I can now confirm that I do get the same behaviour - until a file rescan is performed, it appears as if the artwork's removed, but afterwards, artwork appears again. However, I can't consistently produce this as some files I've edited with the same version as I'm currently using are definitely without artwork after I'd deleted it using MB.
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