Cannot close a deployment when provider is inactive/offline

[GoncaloPT]

When a provider becomes offline/inactive, one normally would want to use terraform destroy/terraform apply to close the active deployment and redeploy it elsewhere.

Current Behaviour

Currently, what happens when one tries to run terraform destroy is a long wait time which results in "connect: operation timed out".

akash_deployment.my_deployment: Refreshing state... [id=XXXXXX:1:1:XXXXXXXXXXX
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│ Error: Error: Get "https://provider.hurricane.akash.pub:8443/lease/XXXXX/1/1/status": dial tcp 216.239.32.21:8443: connect: operation timed out

Expected Behaviour

I would expect that the terraform provider would understand - after a reasonable amount of tries - that the provider is no longer online and therefore ( since a destroy command was requested ) proceed with closing the deployment.