I work with software development tools. Flexibility > Ease-of-use. Ease-of-use can be added later once base feature exist.
On top of this I imagine that contacts deleted via workflow could be kept backed up for one month. Would not add much cost for HubSpot and would allow us customers to review the automatic deletions and allow us to restore if we run into any issues.
In conclusion I also doubt that there is a technical issue to implement this feature. It is probably rather as @jk12 pointed out a question about revenue for HubSpot…
HubSpot is a great service, but our company is no longer a HubSpot customer. I will unsubscribe to the topic. Thanks for all thoughts shared on this topic!