A draconian, but effective solution is to delete the entire PayPal account (see "Settings > Account > Close you account") and then create a new one. It sucks but at least you know that all of this unwanted inactive autopayments are gone for good. Make sure that you download your transactions history and other data (see "Settings > Data & Privacy > Download your data") before you do it if you care about anything on the account.
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