At my company, the soft-deleted items in our DB were a source of massive confusion for our data engineers. "How can a row be both deleted and undeleted at once,

At my company, the soft-deleted items in our DB were a source of massive confusion for our data engineers. "How can a row be both deleted and undeleted at once, like Schroedinger's cat?" they puzzled. We renamed "deleted_at" to "archived_at". And there was much rejoicing.