This very topic wasn’t split and has the same problem. Therefore the way how the shrinking came about matters not.
Take a book analogy, in a book if you rip out page 77, page 200 remains page 200. In Discourse page 200 becomes page 199
but discourse is not a book which is cast in “paper” once printed, it’s dynamic “living” system. As such I am unable to see where the book metaphor fits in this case.
And even if I run with your metaphor, page 200 remains page 200, so if there was a link to page 200 before that worked - it should work still if pages 1-199 were ripped out. Except, this surely is not the way to fix this problem, which is much simpler if you don’t look at it as a book.