Delete method failing

I'm running into a strange issue with record (soft) deletes, and I can't track down where it's coming from. 

Checking my logs, I see that it does attempt to delete the record but the ID is '$'. I also checked the HTML source, and the ID is placed correctly in the delete path.  

Help...

Controller:

PHP Code:

    public function deleteUser($id = null)
    {
        $model = new UserModel();
        $model->delete($id);
        $query = $model->getLastQuery();
        log_message('notice', $query);

        return redirect()->back()->withInput();
    } 


Model:

PHP Code:

protected $useSoftDeletes = true;

    
    protected function initialize(): void
    {
        parent::initialize();

        $this->allowedFields = [
            ...$this->allowedFields,

            'customerid',
            'name',
            'company',
            'address',
            'address2',
            'city',
            'state',
            'country',
            'postalcode',
            'phone_cc',
            'phone',
            'mobilenocc',
            'mobileno'
        ];

    }


    public function deleteUser($id)
    {
        return $this->delete($id);
    } 


View:

PHP Code:

<a href="<?= base_url('admin/users/delete/') . $user->id ?>">Delete</a> 


Route:

PHP Code:

$routes->get('users/delete/(:num)', 'Admin\Users::deleteUser/$'); 


Logs:

Code:

UPDATE `users` SET `deleted_at` = '2023-04-28 01:08:29', `updated_at` = '2023-04-28 01:08:29'
WHERE `id` IN ('$')
AND `deleted_at` IS NULL

Never mind, I found it. The route only had the '$' , so that's what was fed into the delete function:

$routes->get('users/delete/(:num)', 'Admin\Users::deleteUser/$1');

PHP Code:

$routes->get('users/delete/(:num)', 'Admin\Users::deleteUser/$'); 

// should be
$routes->get('users/delete/(:num)', 'Admin\Users::deleteUser/$1'); 


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