I am aware that you must remove a device from and folders before you can actually remove the device from the ISY and thus remove the links. I personally find this a bit irritating but curios if this is a deliberate sort of safety measure or something?

Bingo. That would be my opinion, also.

It's a matter of making the operation considerably less programming intensive without a great burden on the user. Not surprising for experienced coders, a simple step here can make seemingly unrelated commands malfunction elsewhere. Coding is at the same time straightforward and complex.

 

OTOH, if that can be easily corrected, then I'm all for it.