Can not delete k8s cluster when OpenStack’s soft delete feature is enabled

[HowardXi]

/kind bug

What steps did you take and what happened:
When OpenStack’s soft delete feature is enabled, the delete method called by CAPO (Cluster API Provider OpenStack) cannot fully remove the virtual machines and their associated resources.
As a result, the Kubernetes cluster deletion process gets stuck at a certain step because the instances remain in a “soft deleted” state instead of being completely removed.

[HowardXi]

This issue still persists in the latest version (0.12.4) because CAPO calls the standard servers.Delete method instead of the servers.ForceDelete method.

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