Deleting a Variable Collection does not clean up Variables in that collection

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At least I am pretty sure that is the case. I've got tests setup with the public API and made a mistake, where I deleted collections before deleting variables in them. When I then recreate the same variable collection and variable, it fails for the variable as it says that there is duplicate key. So presumably there is still a variable with that key in the system, but I cannot actually retrieve that variable, because it is connected to a variable collection that no longer exists. The UI does not prevent me from deleting a collections that contain variables either, and leaves the same orphan variables behind. I did all my testing in my API Client Test World: https://www.worldanvil.com/w/api-client-test-world-soullink There should either be a system that prevents the deletion of a variable collection when it still contains variables, or a system where variable collection deletion also cleans up all the variables. Or a way to see variables without collections.

Steps to Reproduce

Create a variable collection

Create a variable with a specific key

Delete variable collection

Recreate a variable collection

Try to recreate a variable with the same specific key.

Deleting a Variable Collection does not clean up Variables in that collection

Deleting a Variable Collection does not clean up Variables in that collection

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