But with soft deletion, this goes out the window. A customer may be soft deleted with its deleted_at flag set, but we’re now back to being able to forget do the

But with soft deletion, this goes out the window. A customer may be soft deleted with its deleted_at flag set, but we’re now back to being able to forget do the same for its invoices. What? You do not delete invoices, unless you’re trying to take revenge on your accountant. This is what soft deletion is (partially) for: you don’t want to see Alice in a customer list for some reason, but her invoices are the accomplished fact. You can even visit her card from there, but it is unlisted everywhere else. Of course that depends on which sense you put into deletion, e.g. you may put obsolete cards into a special group instead and only use deletion to remove data completely with all references. But then deletion is useless, because only a programmer to the bone can imagine deletion of a customer together with all historical (legal) documents they participated in.