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Is your project a Steam game? We added in a change which meant your Steam games were always exported as a zip since you never want to upload an NSIS Installer to Steam.
Yes, it's a project for Steam. So I suppose that's the explanation. You could add a text note in that preferences panel warning about this, if not, some users like me will think it's a bug or something.