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AI-generatedCollection.fetch retains stale models after server-side deletions without reset option
Symptom A Backbone.Collection backed by a REST endpoint continues to hold models that no longer exist on the server after a fetch() call. The default merge semantics reconcile incoming records by ID but never remove local models that are absent from the response. Context The application relies on Collection.fetch() to refresh data after server-side schema mi