Rigify (WGTS_Rig) item, can it be removed from the project without ill effects

Thanks so much for your reply. I really appreciate it.

My rigify rig has the circles, torso box and the arrows, spheres …
I never have the layer those widget thinngys enabled and have always been able to animate no problems…

The rig and the wgts-rig are on seperated layers…

Upon reading and watching YT videos it appears they are left overs from the creation of those items…
(Cube, circles etc…)
I deleted the item using (delete hierarchy) all the rig items don’t disappear as it’s on the rig layer not the last layer where these things end up on rigify creation.