Prevent empty platforms from being hidden?

[chinagreenelvis]

I'm in the middle of reorganizing my entire collection and this involves me deleting old entries from platforms the platform vanishes from the left-side menu. My only workaround is to add a blank entry named "!" and then delete everything but that entry.

Edited April 3 by chinagreenelvis

[chinagreenelvis]

It's actually even more of a problem because creating a new platform when I want to separate things like translations doesn't show the platform until I add something to it - and the entire system erases it if it remains empty.

I'm still on 12.9 but I'm guessing this behavior hasn't changed in newer versions.