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Ultimately, you don't apply deleteBeforeReplace on the component but the custom resources within a component. Given that there is no current way to map a single resource option to N number of custom resources, it is omitted.

There is a bit more commentary <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/8969#issuecomment-1360439740|here> as well as what's possible today.

Gotcha, thanks, makes sense. I would call it out in BIG BOLD LETTERS in the docs though, as a fair warning :)

It's a good point. There use to be a warning shown in the CLI if you ran into this situation, but it was removed for other reasons.