It starts with me wanting to remove the “Value” entry from components like 555 timers and such.
I thought I could outsmart KiCad to get what I wanted. I navigated to the symbol editor, and change what looked to be the “Value” entry, but really was the “Name” of the part and changed it to “~”.
Just because I did this, does not mean that anyone else should.
If however, one does manage to do this dumb thing, take note that the symbol can in fact be recovered from the library with a text editor; and if one does not know what they are doing the first time around, it might take a little bit of time to work out.