It would be nice if there was a flag for

pulumi state delete

like

--pending-deletion

which would delete all the resources in the stack which are (Pending Deletion) I guess I should suggest this on the github for pulumi?

@polite-napkin-90098 add your vote on this issue https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/4265

We're thinking of making

refresh

do this, operation. It currently clears pending deletes and updates, so it's only pending creates that are left in the pending_operation list right now. After some internal discussion we think it should be fine for refresh to just clear those pending deletes when it runs as well.