I didn't ask them to make a template from an instance which I wanted to be securely, irrecoverably destroyed and one of the key lines of explanation for this en

I didn't ask them to make a template from an instance which I wanted to be securely, irrecoverably destroyed and one of the key lines of explanation for this entire issue by DigitalOcean was to allow customers to undo mistakes which to my mind reads more like resuscitation than templating.