Custom Post Type meta value is being saved in array, instead of just the string (as value)

Your issue is not with storage, it is with retrieval. get_post_custom() is inconvenient and rarely used in practice.

get_post_meta() is more common in practice. Note it has explicit argument to retrieve a single value, rather than array of values for a key (which WP can do too).

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