Two home pages, cannot delete either one

[Didier9]

I doubt it is  "coming" back, its probably not actually deleting, did you delete the files.
Delete the xml files and delete the pages.xml

Also make sure your plugins are up to date or disabled when you do this.

when I delete the xml files, will I have to recreate the page (not an issue, just curious about the process to minimize downtime)?

Why does it want to keep the slug to the homepage at index-1 and why can't I change that back to index?