Zend certified PHP/Magento developer

Wanting to remove multi stores and go back to single store view scope in Magento2.3

Is it possible to switch our store back to single store mode? Is this possible now? It says,

“This setting will not be taken into account if system has more than
one store view.”

We have two stores on Magento2.3.5. However, we are wanting to remove one of these stores and its views from admin, since we never use it. No products and not much data has been saved on the other store view. However, switching to single store mode in does not do anything and I take it because it still sees the other store views so it does not take that setting into account.

Would I have to remove 2nd stores website? I did not see an option to remove store.

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