The new(ish) Images profile tab shows all the time, even if it has nothing to show. That's different to the other extensions (eg gallery albums, which is separate for reasons that elude me, or custom fields), which only show up if there's content to display.

My personal opinion is that this tab is pretty pointless for most sites, because the same stuff is already available in the user's content page. I'm not bothered whether it stays or goes though, as long as it can stay out of the way when it's empty and just a waste of space.

Yeah, I've already reported it as a bug and it's been acknowledged:

 

No ETA on a fix though... 🙄