Here’s what I see
- create new note in Inbox
- replicate it to another group
- have “replicants 1” in Inspector, both records are shown as replicants
- move the variant in the Inbox to trash
- in the trash, it is a normal record
- the remaining variant in the group is also a normal record without replicants
- Moving back the note from trash to the inbox gives me the two entries in Inbox and the group, both marked as replicants
Note: I used the context menu to replicate and move to inbox, and the delete key to move to trash.
So, I see something that looks a bit irritating, but definitely no loss of information.