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If its easy to remove when deflated then its not been correctly glued. It needs to be strongly glued to the rim--- so much so that one should be able to ride a flat tire without worries that the tire will roll off.
The limiting factor on the adhesion of the rim to tire should be defined by the adhesion of the tire's base tape to the tire, e.g. it should be as strong as possible but not as strong as base-tape to tire.
I would avoid rim tape. There are few advantages. My favorite cements are Conti and Mastic One. For carbon rims one can add a bit of Patex. I use a "magic potion" called ICS Gutarol--- I squirreled away several liters back in the late 1980s before ICS dissapeared---- that when mixed into my rim cement seems to increase the bound and slightly decrease the elasticity. Back in the old days people used to mix yellow (elastic) and red (non-elastic) cements together.