Alan Underwood
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Thanks for checking this. I think I may have caused some confusion by calling them “bounding box center markers.” I was referring specifically to the square midpoint handles on the bounding box — the handles centered on the top/bottom and left/right edges — not the object's center point controlled by the Attributes panel.
I checked the Attributes setting anyway, and the object's center point was already enabled. While testing this, though, I found something that makes me think I'm dealing with a display/rendering bug rather than normal guide behavior.
I moved an object that had been interfering with Smart Guides and Illustrator left a visible “ghost” of the object in its previous position. The ghost could not be selected and Smart Guides did not recognize it. Toggling Preview caused the ghost to disappear immediately.
More importantly, after toggling Preview, the original problem also went away: when I drag a guide from the ruler, the bounding box and its midpoint handles now remain visible. I can therefore use those handles to position the guide as I expected.
So I think you're correct about the normal historical behavior you described, but that doesn't appear to be what I was seeing. Illustrator seems to have gotten into a stale display state, and forcing a redraw by toggling Preview fixed both the ghost object and the bounding-box behavior.