Clarify behavior when 'Always encrypt EBS volumes' is enabled and encrypted launch device is used

According to Packer docs for EBS builder AWS builds can be sped up by removing the encrypt_boot parameter and instead setting encrypted and kms_key_id parameters on launch_block_device_mapping block. However the docs also state that encrypt_boot parameter cannot be overriden if global Always encrypt EBS volumes flag is enabled. My question is, does the global flag need to be disabled for this optimization to work?