Does restoring to factory and reinstalling Mac OS not remove iCloud?

On my MacBook Pro over the weekend, I erased and restored my Hard Drive to factory. Did not have any trouble doing this, and was never asked for an iCloud password or to turn off iCloud.
I have since given away this computer, and I just noticed in the Find My Mac section on iCloud it said device locked (at about the time I did the restore).
Can anyone tell me what happened? Or if this is even an issue. I went back through setup once, and seemed to be able to connect to the Internet and nothing was ever flagged. (I subsequently erased a second time before giving the computer away).
I'm fine with how everything worked; just didn't want to give the computer away and have it present problems for the next owner.
Thanks!

Did you follow the procedure in this Apple document, particularly #4?
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