If you're like me you know that it should be on, that's the default it makes SQL work properly yada yada.
You also have an app to run and it hasn't been working unexpectedly to date. In moving from 5.6 to 5.7 the strategy is something along the lines of "monkey patch for now and ... hopefully fix the handful of odd queries later"
Deep in your OS X computer there is a /etc directory.