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You can remove resources individually by URN; `pulumi state delete URN`
It's a lot more surgical that editing the state file manually. Perhaps it helps resolve your problem?

maybe I have hundred resources that depends on one resource that pulumi has not managed to cleanly delete

I mean, I have done it, but it takes a lot of time, and if this happens on a production situation it is going to be quite stressing

I do not understand either why pulumi cannot proceed with certaing pending operations

for example, in this case the pending operation was to delete a cluster

why cant pulumi check that the resource is there and try to proceed?

It's a good question. Maybe you want to open an issue on github? <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi>
There's similar repos for the provider specific frameworks as well (AWS, GCP, etc)

for instance, now I entered a seemly impossible situation to resolve where pulumi was not able to destroy the stack due too some CRD that would not delete

after several attempts I had to delete the cluster manually

but now, pulumi destroy would not find the cluster and get stucked

I think pulumi cli should have some tool to be able overcome this state

but I don’t know how to report it, since it is quite indeterministic, probably due GKE not being super stable either

I would need to have a simple reproducible case

Not necessarily. To me, it sounds like you're asking for a feature request that is independent of your particular failure mode; "remove large numbers of failing resources that break a deploy", or something like that.

Your failuire mode is just a scenario where that feature is particularly useful.

I think they will be able to come up with comparable scenarios that they are familiar with.

If they can't come up with something comparable they will have questions and you get to start the conversation towards clarity. Either way it's a win for you.