Hey folks - the goal for this forum is indeed to discuss these topics - we want to see thoughts on how things can be done, vs. thoughts on why functionality may not be needed.
Let’s focus on how to solve the problem here - which seems to be there is no “archive” function, aside from the trash, which is not, and probably will never be designed to be an archive, it’s just a rest-stop before deletion 
It may be more productive to join the discussion here instead: