Hi @NN-03060352-0 ,
To be honest, I haven't tested this specific scenario myself. However, based on my experience with kits, when a kit is stopped for sale, it is removed from the assortment.
As I mentioned earlier, marking a kit substitute as stopped can impact assortment evaluation. I wasn't certain whether stopping a substitute item that is used as a kit component would also cause the parent kit to be removed, so I believed that scenario would need to be tested. Since you've already tested it and observed that stopping the substitute item removes the parent kit from the assortment, that confirms the behavior.
From a functional perspective, this behavior makes sense because the sale of a kit depends on the availability of its components. If a component or its substitute is stopped for sale, any kit that relies on it should also be removed from the assortment, as the kit can no longer be sold as intended.
Regards,
Syed Haris Shah