In my 20 years of software experience the soft delete is not so often used to undelete something, but more often used to know what has been deleted. If you dele

In my 20 years of software experience the soft delete is not so often used to undelete something, but more often used to know what has been deleted. If you delete a record from a table, did it ever exist? Can you reference that customer/user/product ever again? Not to mention the one-in-a-million case where a customer had their account erroneously or fraudulently deleted - undeleting saves time/money/bacon when it's needed and is relatively inexpensive to maintain.