I have the same struggle figuring what the author wants to say about this. The difference between a soft delete and a lifecycle, in the context of the article, is just semantic.
I think the idea is you could still have a page in the UI that shows archived data but you wouldn’t do that normally with a soft delete. The lifecycle thing makes it up front with the user instead of hiding soft delete as an implementation detail.
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I have the same struggle figuring what the author wants to say about this. The difference between a soft delete and a lifecycle, in the context of the article, is just semantic.
I think the idea is you could still have a page in the UI that shows archived data but you wouldn’t do that normally with a soft delete. The lifecycle thing makes it up front with the user instead of hiding soft delete as an implementation detail.