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While Delta robots are widely recognized for their speed and accuracy, their practical use is often limited by workspace constraints and singularities that compromise motion stability and control safety. Through a detailed analysis, it is shown that classical Jacobian-based performance indices are unsuitable for resolving the redundancy introduced by geometric reconfiguration, as they may lead the system toward singular or ill-conditioned configurations. To overcome these limitations, this work introduces an adjustable singularity-sensitive performance index designed to penalize extreme velocity and force singular values and enables tuning between velocity and force performance. Simulation results demonstrate that optimizing the reconfiguration parameter using this index increases the usable workspace by approximately 82% and improves the uniformity of manipulability across the workspace. 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