Fixed. Thank you.
Nicolas:
I can confirm that with orgalist 1.15 the delete behavior has been corrected -- Thanks!
The warning:
⛔ Warning (org-element): ‘org-element-at-point’ cannot be used in non-Org buffer #<buffer orgalist.txt> (text-mode)
remains however. [A 1 line warning buffer]
Ihor:
The (require 'org-element) at that point (after make repro and package-initialize)
a 165 line warning buffer starting
⛔ Warning (emacs): Org version mismatch.
...
There is no mixed org
I cant remove the elpa because there are other elpa packages that have (require 'org)