Very nice explanation! Thank for taking the time to do that.
In the Right pane of Device View, every book was showing the correct Library location which was also where "metadata.calibre" and "driveinfo.calibre" are located. I should've done a recording first because what was odd was that none of the books in device view showed a cover or metadata in the right pane. However, if I double clicked to open the book the cover and metadata was there. In Library View the covers and metadata for same books where present in the right pane.
As you'll see in this screen shot below, the Auto Connect Startup folder was the exact same folder as my Library:
After pressing the "Reset this tweak" button and applying the changes Calibre no longer opens to a device.
I'd also like to mention something else that I have observed all along and still do. When I run Check Library it states:
"Found no errors in your caibre library database. Do you want calibre to check if the files in your library match the information in the database?"
When I click Yes, the only issue that appears is within invalid authors section as shown here:
BTW, does this forum block images from IMGUR.com from being shown within a post? I asked because these links work everywhere except here even though I used the "Insert image" button. Since I can't get them to show, I've attached them instead.