Well idk about you but , I sure can't say that everyone who has claimed to do so is lying or just doesn't know what they are talking about.
My understanding is that it's more like a merging .
Even though they say chakra REMOVAL.
It's pretty interesting.
I can see chakras. They are just part of one level of the energy body, but they aren't the be all and end all. They only function within a couple of layers of the energy body. The levels beyond don't have chakras. If you can see auras, you can usually see chakras... they are close enough to the physical level to be visible.
What I'm talking about isn't a "belief", it's fact. If you can see the energy body, all you have to do is observe the way they move. It's like observing anything in nature.
Imagine a laser beam. You can move your hand through it, you can add things that make it refract differently, you can change its colour with a filter, but the beam never stops. You can't "remove" the beam from space.
Most people who talk about chakras have never actually witnessed them. They are dealing in abstract thoughts about them, written and talked about by people who have never seen chakras. Then you have the people who claim they don't even exist.
Human senses have atrophied significantly in the modern era. Although it's hard to see chakras even if you can see auras, most people with a developed third eye can see auras. It's not that hard. All the old texts, like the Vedic texts, discuss the nature of chakras in depth. The problem is that they are from centuries ago so they are written in a language that the modern person has to translate. The Daoists did this too, with their upper, lower and middle dantian diagrams.
The vast majority of written modern material, like 90% or more, is written by people who don't actually see chakras. They are referencing older works, watering them down, and then re-packing them for their personal profit or fame.
You can't remove chakras. They are a vital part of the living person. The health of the chakras is the health of the body, and vice versa. Even high level people who can do psychic surgeries of sorts, they can't remove chakras. Chakras can be damaged but not eliminated.