Skills Removal?

I want to be able to remove a Skill once the Skill is no longer active. I retired the skill but since it still has learners attached to that skill it will no be able to be deleted. I have accumulated multiple skills that I would like to be removed from the filter.

Due to the restrictions will there ever be a way to get the skills that are no longer active removed from the drop down list?

The learners that are attached do not even have a license anymore. This is quite frustrating and should be able to filter only active skills and the retired skills be removed.