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The /var/log/apt/history.log file should have a full list of the installed packages, which you can copy-paste to remove.

This is likely because by default Recommends and Suggests both prevent autoremovals and there are probably some circular depends/recommends/suggests loops preventing removing things. The APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant and APT::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant options can be used to disable this behaviour, so you could try the Suggests one first. Adding the Recommends one would autoremove lots of other stuff too though.

Another thing you could do next time is list all packages (apt list) before and after, then diff the lists to see what was added/removed/upgraded and manually revert that.