Deleted cards still show up in Cards list (desktop App 1.4.10)

Suppose I have this rem:

a <-> b

due to the new notation, <-> creates a card.
I don’t want it to be a card so I deleted the <->
So it is no longer a card and it stops showing up on the queue
BUT
It still shows up in the cards list (Settings > View All Cards) !
This bug has been here for a long time. This seems like a really basic feature. How do people even tidy up their card list?

The only way to make it disappear from the card list would be to delete the entire rem. But the content of the rem is needed for my notes! and it has a lot of descendant rems too!
I now have hundreds of rem in the card list, and zero card.