GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="" should do the trick but won't work anymore
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I suspect something is weird about the GRUB that ships with elementary OS. It ignored some of the configuration I tried on it as well, albeit I'm inexperienced with GRUB in general.
What worked for me was using boot-repair
to reinstall GRUB. I disabled Secure Boot in the GRUB options, which reinstalled GRUB, and enabled my selections in the GRUB config file.