Thanks again.This is how I solved it. But don't restore it when you set it up
I believe the night light setting is missing and cannot be accessed through this means as I believe it reverts back to the app's main page as there is no GUI associated.
Did some more digging and found that the following commands executed through adb also solves the issue:
adb shell settings put secure night_display_activated 0
adb shell settings put secure night_display_auto_mode 0
Leaving these instructions for anyone else experiencing this issue.