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Simply ceasing reporting will have no effect on the collection other than no longer showing updates.
Unless the debt collector additionally reports the deletion of its collection, it will remain in your credit file.
Exclusion from your credit report is solely up to the CRA. The debt collector's involvment in credit report exclusion ends with their reporting of the DOFD.
It yhen becomes the responsibility of the CRA to monitor the time since DOFD, and ensure that they discontinue inclusion in any credit reprots they issue no later than 7 yers plus 180 days from the reported DOFD.
There is no inaccuracy to form the basis for any dispute until after 7 years plus 180 days from the reported DOFD.
Any exclusion piror to that date is solely at the discretion of the CRA.