addmultisigaddress creates an address respecting the setting, being unable to generate a specific type of address without also adding it to the wallet seems wrong.

I suppose in the future `addresstype` may be refactored to be wallet-specific, which would leave this non-wallet rpc call without an argument. Perhaps there should just be an optional parameter to set it.
{
    LOCK(cs_wallet); 
    if (nWalletVersion >= nVersion)
        return true;
    
    if (fExplicit && nVersion > nWalletMaxVersion)
            nVersion = FEATURE_LATEST;
    nWalletVersion = nVersion;
    if (nVersion > nWalletMaxVersion)
        nWalletMaxVersion = nVersion;
    {
        WalletBatch* batch = batch_in ? batch_in : new WalletBatch(*database);
        if (nWalletVersion > 40000)
            batch->WriteMinVersion(nWalletVersion);
        if (!batch_in)
            delete batch;
    }
    return true;
}
bool CWallet::SetMaxVersion(int nVersion)
{
    LOCK(cs_wallet); 
    
    if (nWalletVersion > nVersion)
        return false;
    nWalletMaxVersion = nVersion;
    return true;
}
std::set<uint256> CWallet::GetConflicts(const uint256& txid) const