git-annex created a monster that I cannot un-init

I was going to explore git-annex, but it turns out it doesn't do what I need. That would be fine except that I initialized it on a repository that I'm using (stupid, I see that now) and now all my files have been replaced with symlinks. I tried running git-annex uninit and it seemed like it was doing something: unannex 2017/mapping/index.html ok unannex 2017/mapping/slide_deck.md ok unannex index.html ok git-annex: Not fully uninitialized Some annexed data is still left in .git/annex/objects/ This may include deleted files, or old versions of modified files. But everything is still symlinks. What am I missing here? I even tried deleting the files in 2017/mapping and copying new files over them but when I try to open them in Atom and edit them, when I save I get a permission error and when I go look I see that they're symlinks again. Even creating new files creates symlinks instead of files, which is confusing and frustrating. How can I revert to where I was before all these symlinks? I thought I'd solved the problem when I realized the git-annex daemon was still running, but I just went to commit my work and push and it is back.