Lightroom Classic won't stop syncing

I'm not clear on what exactly you need me to take a screen shot of that will help solve this. Here's more detail. Tell me what step of all of this you want to see a screen shot of.

1. In the upper right corner of Lightroom I have the sync paused so the cloud symbol has a little pause symbol on the right.
2. I navigate to the Catalog called all Synced Photographs and right click.
3. In the drop down I select Remove from all synced photographs
4. A dialog box appears telling me that the one photo will be removed from Lightroom ecosystem but not deleted from the desktop catalog; Images will be removed when Creative Cloud sync is enabled.
5.  The selected image flies up into the cloud symbol and a new dialog box opens where I can resume syncing. 

This is where the trouble starts. If I resume syncing it starts making multiple virtual copies of the 1934 images that are currently in the All Synced Photographs catalog.

All I want is for this nonsense to stop. I'm finished with trying to make sync work across different devices. I just want the desktop Lightroom Classic to work without creating endless virtual copies that will take endless amount of time for me cull.