Use Delete Face to delete the hole. Use it to delete fillets and chamfers. The main use case for Direct Edit was imported, water tight solids. Deleting an outside face would make it no longer a solid, so it can't be done with this tool. When you get a model full of fillets and rounds and unnecessary holes , with no history, that needs to be modified, you'll probably apologize for calling it useless.
Furthermore, you are gravely underutilizing the feature by omitting usage of the precision elements (Measure From, Snap To, and Snap Parallel). If the hole needs to be moved, I don't want to have to do the math. Select Measure From, pick a face, and enter a precise value. Snap To lets you move things into alignment with other features (align two holes by moving one, pressing Snap To, and selecting the other). Snap Parallel lets you rotate a face to the same angle of an existing face. True Mastery, should you choose to do it...
Use Delete Face to delete the hole. Use it to delete fillets and chamfers.
The main use case for Direct Edit was imported, water tight solids. Deleting an outside face would make it no longer a solid, so it can't be done with this tool.
When you get a model full of fillets and rounds and unnecessary holes , with no history, that needs to be modified, you'll probably apologize for calling it useless.
Furthermore, you are gravely underutilizing the feature by omitting usage of the precision elements (Measure From, Snap To, and Snap Parallel).
If the hole needs to be moved, I don't want to have to do the math. Select Measure From, pick a face, and enter a precise value. Snap To lets you move things into alignment with other features (align two holes by moving one, pressing Snap To, and selecting the other).
Snap Parallel lets you rotate a face to the same angle of an existing face.
True Mastery, should you choose to do it...
Thanks for your extremely well thought-out feedback!