_acme-challenge TXT record stuck on server after deleting it

I am the owner of arknet.cloudns.nz

I have deleted my acme TXT record from Cloudflare 4 days ago. I tries to create a new one but it says the old record still exists.

I have waited 4 days. DOUBLE the maximum amount of time. Please remove these records from your server.

More importantly why does it take so long? It’s literally just text. What’s the purpose of this delay. I have zeroed out entire terabytes worth of mechanical hard drives on potato powered PCs with several passes and it didn’t take this long.
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