Hi Amazing community!
Illustrator seems to frequently forget my settings,
Example, I love to have the GF swatches located here, but it removes it once in a while.
Also once I pruned the swatches down to just the bottom ones, and it forgets that also.
Do you have any advice?
Have you tried saving your preferred setup as a custom workspace?
Ahh, that was it. 
I did that once, then reset it and it came back.
Thank you!!! 
do you have a workspace configuration that works best for you that you’d be willing to share?
I would totally be happy to share - but I generally leave the basic workspace alone since GF is not my primary use for Illustrator. 
I use a GF template and swatch library that I load up when needed. (Both based on the ones that were shared by others in this forum a few years ago)
