Ticking the "Remove Empty Groups" tickbox stops empty groups being created anywhere

[eAi]

This may be by design, but certainly confused me: Having the Remove Empty Groups tick box prevents groups being created manually in the Addressables Groups window - as these are empty by default.

Steps to reproduce:

• Tick the Remove Empty Groups tickbox in the import settings file
• Open the Addressables Groups window
• Right click and select Create New Group > Packed Assets
• Notice that nothing happens

Ideally, this tickbox wouldn't do anything to manually created groups - just those that had been created by the import process. This would probably require tracking these groups in some way. Could a new class be created that derives from AddressableAssetGroup that is used to mark groups that are 'managed' by the importer? Alternatively, a big warning on this tickbox might help - it does seem quite dangerous!

[favoyang]

You made the point. But it's not ideal to implement such a thing without a visible way to show users whether a group is managed. What if a user creates a managed group, then delete the rule, the group is managed or not?

Alternatively, I propose to retire the feature and replaced it with a [clean empty groups] button. It will also make this PR #24 gone.

[eAi]

I'm feeling that on balance removing this feature is probably sensible - I don't think there's any real harm caused by empty groups - it's just messy - and there seems to be some definite harm by having the option there. If the empty groups bother you, you can just delete them - they're easy to identify as they don't have the expand arrow next to them.

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