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Correct. Google is banking on users getting withdrawl and crawling back. They all do the same thing, like Meta products. They give you 30 days before deletion because they know most people are addicted and will recover their accounts.
Guilty as charged
Could be, but it's more likely that the delete gets put into a message queue and gets processed when the deletion service can handle it. These large deletions are computationally expensive.
Its similar to why the exports take so long to process