We certainly want to retain all the post data associated with users, new and old. So deleting users is really the nuclear option.
I agree that the suspended users still need to exist and should retain profile data in relation to their posts. But that’s different than actively displaying them in the frontend user directory!
As I mentioned before, suspended users are already not searchable within the user directory, so it just seems strange that they would still be listed if they cannot also be searched for.
The suggestion here is merely that it would be nice to have the option to not display suspended users in the frontend user directory 