Currently, no check is made at config validation time if the value of "configsvr" in the new replica set config matches the value of the equivalent command line argument "--configsvr". This means if you start nodes without --configsvr and reconfig or initiate with a config that contains "configsvr:true", the reconfig or initiate command succeeds, but all nodes in the replica set immediately transition to REMOVED state.
Instead, the reconfig or initiate command should fail and return an error.