That is a good point, but flagging shouldn’t be the end of the line for soft deleted data. There should be a process going back and removing everything that was flagged for deletion, prioritized to guarantee deletion within a set time frame but without impacting performance. Meanwhile, most queries should be done through a view that automatically masks out any flagged data. It’s a basic data integrity feature that shouldn’t be left to their API (which is such a fast moving target that one developer doesn’t know what the other is doing much of the time).