I've run into this error with 10.5 as well.
I had a series of layers with joins created before encountering the error. When I unchecked the editor tracking fields the error didn't go away. It wasn't until I removed the joins and joined tables, verified the fields were unchecked, added the join tables, redid the join, and analyzed that the error was gone.
Something seemed to be holding on when I removed the field visibility while the join still existed.