Does a vacuum “exist” in this sense? Does “darkness”? They are words we use to describe what is essentially an absence of something: but absences of things do describe an actual existing state: it’s just a state defined by absence.

Same thing could be said about any hole. A hole in paper, for example.

A hole in the ground is really a lack of ground in the ground

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A hole is the only thing where the more you take away from it, the bigger it gets.

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A hole is something that gets bigger when you take stuff from it

No it's defined as a place for something if you fill in a hole you have gotten rid of an absence by placing something inside which therefore means you have no place to for the hole to be filled there for no hole and no way to fill it

"There was a hole here its gone now"

The idea of a hole is created and defined by humans, so it exists.

This is actually a fundamental insight tied up with the Buddhist ideas of emptiness and no-self.

The useful, valuable part of a pot, or a house, or the hub of a wheel are the 'nothings' at their centers.

Follow the simple idea to its very end and you end up in some very interesting places.