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You can remove these files using the command line by using the \\?\ syntax to bypass all normalisation and compatibility tricks Windows employs. Definitely works in CMD, never checked in Powershell (but I assume it works).

I've had a similar issue with a recursive folder and transferring it to another host in Linux. A megabyte on my machine filled up the server pretty quick.

Half a decade ago anything that needed Node packages - even just a Gulp build system - would wind up constructing extremely deep directory trees that Explorer would choke on. So you would npm install the project, realize you needed a different version of something, try to delete node_modules, and fail horribly with a bunch of long path errors.

The built-in "robocopy" tool (normally used for making backups / mirrors) is capable of deleting any messed up directories like that, by mirroring an empty directory over it.