Wow, I'm glad it's not just me!
Hey, welcome aboard. And I too am glad not to be the only one.
I tried one of the links pbguy so kindly provided and the message from Apple was that they'd send instructions to my phone within a few days. That was over a week ago. Sigh.
I've tried signing out of iCloud (letting it delete all the synced info from my Mac) and signing back in…..
That's where I'm headed (without the signing back in) but I just want to be sure I can restore the deleted files either from my Time Machine or Super Duper backups.