improved missing pref messaging #1633

Job	Run time
build (22)	2m 5s
build (24)	2m 0s
npm-publish-dev / prerelease-check	10s
Dependabot	0s
npm-publish-latest	0s
gh-pages	0s
npm-publish-dev / npm-publish-build	0s
	4m 15s

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