AFCI protection @ 1st device

[Sierrasparky]

I'm sorry. I wasn't clear as to WHO was installing the grounding-type receptacles on an ungrounded wiring method.

This is generally done by an uninformed do-it-yourselfer who thinks it makes the property worth more to replace all the old painted 2-wire devices with shiny new grounding-type devices. Happens a lot up here. The uniformed doing things they shouldn't . . . like replacing a listed AFCI breaker / receptacle pairing on an NM homerun with an unpaired component that you were suggesting.

You see? Make better rules to protect idiots and one simply forces the making of a better idiot.

Yup so True..A plug tester will reveal most of that.
I do wish the CMP would rethink things sometimes.