The default value of this setting is false. If you actually put persist_filters: false in your YML file you get an error due to the ``cannotBeEmpty()`` condition, which I think is not needed here.
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ class Configuration implements ConfigurationInterface
->end()
- ->scalarNode('persist_filters')->defaultValue(false)->cannotBeEmpty()->end()
+ ->scalarNode('persist_filters')->defaultValue(false)->end()
->end();