Not hiding empty staves correctly

Dorico
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Disclaimer: I have posted this before but have been disapproved as off topic/duplicate without being told the exact reason or pointed to the original topic where this issue is refuted/explained. I have searched the forum for threads about hiding empty staves and wasn’t able to find any that would be at least similar.

In the attached score, I hide empty soprano solo staff. In the beginning, it works as expected; between bars 20-29 the empty staff is not hidden; then, on bar 30 it is hidden again.

Is there a way to force Dorico to hide bars 20-29 as well?
Rock My Soul.zip (582 KB)

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There is something in those bars. Simply select those bars in that stave (in Write mode) and hit Delete or Backspace.

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It was. Banging my head against the table that I didn’t come up with this myself. Thank you!

Anyway, maybe some notification about this would be helpful?

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Well yeah, it’s weird. Normally there would be a signpost if something was hidden, unless it had been hidden via some sort of backdoor (and there are a few possibilities there). Did this originate as a MusicXML file?

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Actually, it did.