Getting gaslit by deleted threads is miserable

I've made a thread like this once before about a year ago, but I feel the need to do so again.

It is infuriatingly poor design to allow the creator of a thread to delete that thread. Just because somebody starts a discussion doesn't mean they should have the right to unilaterally remove all evidence of that discussion ever happening. You're basically giving somebody limited moderator privileges over threads they create, which is unfair to other posters, and often abusive. I frequently put a good bit of time and effort into my posts, and while it's one thing if one of you moderators decides that my post should be removed, it's quite another when the person I'm talking to can simply nuke the whole thread.

I have never been on a forum before this one where a thread creator has deletion privs after their post has been responded to. Please consider changing this. I've had multiple posts go missing over the past couple days, and for my posts to go missing without so much as a notification explaining what happened is extremely frustrating.