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TL;DR

The deconstruction planner is a cool tool with many smart filters. It is currently lacking an option to only remove mined out miners.

What?

Current solution to remove mined out miners are unnecessarily complex. You can deconstruct them one by one or do the following steps, which result in a lot of bot activity:

1. Blueprint your miners
2. Deconstruct your miners
3. Apply the blueprint. Notice that depleted miners are not reconstructed.

A filter option for *mined out miners* in the deconstruction planner offers a much nicer solution.

current smartfilters for the deconstruction planner, with the lack of an *outmined miner option*

Why?

Playing through space age i had many instances of reclaiming mined out miners and their modules, to reuse them in new outposts. I noticed again, that there is no nice solution to remove them, as the deconstruction planner is missing a fitting filter option. If there arent internal hurdles, it seems like a low hanging fruit to add.
There is a mod for this, but i dont see why vanilla factorio should offer a decent solution for this common problem. This filter could break uranium mining setups, but so does the deconstruction planner without this filter.

All the mined out miners, i have to handselect for deconstruction

There is a slightly easier way to do it. You can deconstruct your miners, wait for bots to pick them all up, and then undo. Bots will be unable to rebuild the depleted miners.
But I do completely agree with your suggestion, even this method is inconvenient to do.