Rather than all that, create ONE EVENT, then once done copy it for each week
(copy and paste, or right click, drag a drop...), that way you can delete
one item and have no problems...

Am I missing something?

I use repeating events all the time. When I select one instance of a
repeating event and request that it be deleted, I get a message box that
asks "Do you want to delete all occurrences of the recurring appointment
"Name of the appointment", or just this one". The message box has two
buttons:
"Delete this occurrence." which is selected by default, and
"Delete the series."

In other words, on every instance of Outlook that I have used, Outlook
DEFAULTS to deleting just the one occurrence -- it takes extra effort to
delete the entire series.

I haven't been able to find any way to change this behavior. Apparently you
have. While I understand how frustrating it can be if Outlook doesn't offer
you the choice to delete a single occurrence, I think you would be better
served by trying to determine why your copy of Outlook is behaving
abnormally than by ranting about a design failure that doesn't exist.

Mike