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Terr_today at 1:01 AM0 repliesview on HN

Yeah: You don't "delete" a bank account, you close it, and you don't "undo", you reopen it, etc. The processes have conditions, audit rules, attached information, side-effects, etc. In some cases the same entity can't be restored, and you have to instead create a successor.

"Undo" may work as shorthand for "whatever the best reversing actions happen to be", but as any system grows it stops being simple.