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Update (Dec 2024): With the new release, it is no longer necessary to perform Generative Remove Operations prior to Cropping.
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For some reason, only recently, when I use the Remove tool only lately it is replacing not removing. I was trying to remove a person standing behind me in one photo and it kept replacing it with another person. I never was able to just remove it. I'm having the same problem again now. I'm trying to remove a car in the street (my attached image) and it just replaces it with another car. I've tried a bunch of times. You can see the final result is still a car. 
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Generative Remove does a good, quick job of removing the car from your screenshot:
Your screenshots indicate that the photo has been cropped. That, combined with the fact I can remove the car from the screenshot, points at the problem: You're apply Remove on a cropped photo. Remove looks at all the photo and is trying to match the unselected, cropped-out photos. Undo Crop, Transform, and Lens Correction (all of which crop out pixels), apply Remove, and then redo those commands.
This is a very common cause of confusion, and LR should really warn users about existing crops or simply disable them while the Remove panel is open, as it does with Lens Blur.
See this article for more details about this and other guidelines for how to remove objects more reliably:
https://www.lightroomqueen.com/generative-remove-replace/
Most complaints about Remove are addressed in the article. But if it doesn't help, please attach a full-resolution JPEG exported from the unmodified original photo (not a screenshot), so we and Adobe can see the issue in detail. With nearly every one of the several dozen problem photos posted here, we've been able to show how to quickly remove the desired objects.
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"Hopeless. Frustrating. No value for money as the tool just cannot be used meaningfully. Waste of time."
In your previous post in this thread last month, you provided a screenshot of where you wanted to remove a cable, and I pointed out that you should uncheck Detect Objects and review a quick-read tutorial. I also said, "But if it doesn't help, please attach a full-resolution JPEG exported from the unmodified original photo (not a screenshot), so we and Adobe can see the issue in detail. With nearly everyone who has posted a problem photo, we've been able to show how to quickly remove the desired objects." You never responded.
Using your screenshot, I quickly removed the cables with Generative Remove:
In another thread, you wrote, "Lightroom is unable to remove this cable. I tried a few times, but end result is that the cable stays there, no change!" Again, Generative Remove did a good job of quickly removing the cable:
In another post in this thread, you complained you weren't able to remove a stick crossing front of a rodent. Someone pointed out that you should select the entire stick, not part of it. You never responded. That works well with your screenshot:
In another post in this thread, you complained about not being able to remove sticks from the background, and we pointed out you needed to apply Remove before cropping and do Update AI Settings after applying Remove on an AI mask. You never responded.
The problems you've reported are addressed by this short, five-minute article to which I've referred you before:
https://www.lightroomqueen.com/generative-remove-replace/
Have you read it? If you have, and you're still having problems, show that I'm an idiot by attaching several full-resolution problem JPEGs exported from the unmodified original photos (not a screenshot, not a modified image).
With the new API the SDK provided in the latest Update I have been able to implement
"Merge Spots"
"Manage Spots"
"Merge Spots" allows to combine any two spots into one, the same we can do when doing "Refine" but this is doable for all type of remove so also for Clone and Heal.
Check the video.
"Manage Spots" allows to delete specific spots within a "Spots Mask"
E.g.
An existing "Generative Remove" has a subtraction.
At today we can''t get rid of the subtraction Masks alone (or the add mask) ...we must trash the entire Spot.
With my code I can manage the existing Spot(s) properly and, like for masking, I can delete what I don't like selectively.
Morale: a better workflow with Remove is doable.
P.s.
I will be evolving code and allow to "Extract Sub Spots" and even allow convert them to "add" or "subtract" within the same Spot (basically same conversion we can do for masking)
P.P.S.
I shows the plug-in in action with single spots but the plug-in obviously can merge complex/entire brush strokes.
The changes done in the current release DO NOT change the problematic situation with Remove.
Yes we can now apply remove even if the image is cropped BUT it doesn't work well.
Starting point.
I paint the Gen Remove
All works till now, I painted on the uncropped image.
I then Crop the image AND refresh the Gen Remove.
All seems good now as well...
Wrong!!!
Look at the hidden reality:
When the full uncropped image is revealed I can see the Gen Remove left an horrible blob on the tree outside the crop, something that didn't happen when I painted on the uncropped image BUT because we can't do "Show Uncropped Image" I can't see the poor result of the refresh so I am led to believe all was ok (but it was not the case)
• The reality is that at all times we must always see AND paint the remove on the entire image otherwise we leave out parts necessary for the Remove to be usable in all situations...so we need the option "Show Uncropped Image" in LrC like in ACR to properly paint usable remove AND judge its quality when we refresh.
Needless to say that painting a partial remove when the image is cropped delivers horrible partial results as the moment one changes the crop the remove must be redone/refined/completed.
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