Setting the unit on a Column in TimeSeries converts default type to Quantity

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I have a TimeSeries table with two columns that I’ve added from numpy arrays.

I print out the types of the columns:

for col in ts.columns:
    print(col)
    print(type(ts[col]))

which outputs:

time
<class 'astropy.table.column.Column'>
test_var0
<class 'astropy.table.column.Column'>

I then set the unit for the test column:

ts['test_var0'].unit = 'm'

This changes the default type returned when I run the loop a second time:

time
<class 'astropy.table.column.Column'>
test_var0
<class 'astropy.units.quantity.Quantity'>

Is this the intended behavior? I would like ts['test_var0'] to return a Column still rather than Quantity.