I need/want to delete inactive workflows but there is no delete option

[Ben van den Berg]

As can be seen in the image below: there are two inactive workflows in my instance...

These workflows are "Read-only System Workflow" and there is no option available to delete them.

How do I get them out of the way, because I want to remove those statuses that it doesn't clutter and confuse my user community?

Thank you in advance.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

You can't remove those two, they are flagged as "system" workflows.  They're there to prevent you deleting core system data that Jira functions now rely on having.

[Ben van den Berg]

I suspected that to be the case - however, once other workflows are active, those one's should be delectable.  I don't like the fact that their statuses are still reflecting and cluttering JQL - it confuses my user community.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

No, they're not there just so there are workflows available when you haven't created your own.

They are there because they provide data that Jira needs, and making them non-deletable stops end-users from deleting or breaking that data.

[Ben van den Berg]

Thanks for confirming my suspicion, @Nic Brough -Adaptavist- 

Certainly, Jira doesn't need workflows and status values that are not used by the configuration for an instance. It sounds more like lazy programming, to me.