I'm not sure whether you're saying that the tar should or shouldn't be deleted. Regardless, my point isn't that it was intentionally deleted. I can easily imagine someone writing a function to upload the data using something like std::tmpfile (which silently deletes the file when it's closed) without thinking about the full implications of that for the broader context the code exists in.

Even in that case though, you would still have a way to produce the data because it would have been specced in the requirements when you were thinking about the broader organizational context.