pustan

>The author uses the "no one ever undeleted anything" as the primary justification. I think this is the part they miss.

But did they though?

"Although I’ve never seen an undelete work in practice, soft deletion wasn’t completely useless because we would occasionally use it to refer to deleted data – usually a manual process where someone wanted to see to a deleted object for purposes of assisting with a support ticket or trying to squash a bug."