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Anyone have any ideas about how deal with that?

For example, can I force pulumi to update the existing namespace as opposed to delete-repalce?

it's unlikely that it's deployments, they will do a cascading delete. It's probably a finalizer

Can pulumi update the namespace instead of replacing?