I agree, there should be a better solution to this.Another tactic we use is quantity and stock static. Both are in our product feed when I make a collection to use for recommendations I filter only products that are in stock and have greater than X quantity available.

Hi Michel,I reached out to our rep a few months back about this. He said that the product will be removed 90 days after being removed from the feed. (Don't quote me on the 90 days, though. I feel like it was somewhere in that time frame.) I asked for a toggle for this setting but have yet to see one in the deployment notes.The other option is to use the API and delete all your entities and reindex. It takes some time and recommendations may be down - but it works. I try to run overnight if this ...