@msbt Thanks. Still not the point. There's a force-fed plugin reinstalling itself. That's just not good.
20 years with WordPress, many years with Cloudron. Many, many times I've found workarounds to things.
Appreciate the sentiment — but experience tells me that opportunities to improve the world rarely happen unless someone makes them happen the first time around.
It's technical debt and a time-costs. Time is too precious to have it repeatedly spent on something that could be avoided. That's the whole point of computers, to automate and iterate on wisdom, so we are free to create.
I chose Cloudron specifically for time-saving factors. It's all those little things that add up to a non-scaleable business if they aren't templated and automated out.
Automated problems are a crime against other's time.
I'm not changing the hosting setup of dozens of WordPress sites because a design flaw hasn't been solved yet.
That would be quitting — which isn't in my vocabulary.
I'm not working around this. I'm here for the long-haul, and if I see unnecessary time lost, risk, confusion, disparate solutions, it's a moral duty to stick with the problem until solved.
If the majority don't value their time as highly, or have the same issues, it doesn't mean they won't in future, or that everyone holds the same standards for auditing and time-efficiency.
Life is too short for workaround hacks that will cost more time than just solving the source of the problem:
There's a plugin being reinstalled after it was deleted.
No amount of "have you tried", "why don't you", is gonna change this fact.