It's like how most people call moving a file into the trash can "deleting." It is deleted (in a sense), but you can still recover it if you want before the trash can gets emptied.

Or like how even you can actually delet a file from the disk but still be able to recover it before the disk space is overwritten by other files. I'm not saying that this is what Google does when you recover a freshly deleted account (most likely not), but what I'm trying to say with these two examples is that being able to be recovered is not a contradiction with having been deleted

Also I don't get why you take problem with this. It's not like it's another loop to jump through to get to delete the account?

I assume that the account is not usable after this. So it is a logical delete and the physical delete is scheduled. I don't know what would be a better way to phrase it, that would not confuse the users.

I am not trying to defend google, I just had similar UX issues at work.

I mean technically deletion just means to allow the computer to overwrite the data but until this happens it can be recovered.

Could still be actually deleted, but there's backups. Technically true.