Honest question: is it better to delete the account or leave it as a placeholder to prevent the name being taken by someone else? I have an ancient yahoo addres

Honest question: is it better to delete the account or leave it as a placeholder to prevent the name being taken by someone else? I have an ancient yahoo address that gets a lot of spam and a few newsletters, but I'm 99% sure that there are some website credentials out there that still use the address and dozens of contacts who still have it their address book. I started to (try to) delete the account several times and always hesitated out of fear. And when I ask myself "what's the harm in leaving it there?" I can't really come up with a good answer. Also interesting aside, Yahoo/Oath nag me every couple weeks to agree to the new Verizon draconian privacy forfeiture terms. I wonder if they'll eventually block logins and cutoff email forwarding if I never click through. My cynical hunch is that they'll equate logins with consent after updating the TOS to explain this.