Decidability and Subformula Property

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How does one prove the decidability of intuitionistic propositional logic, given the subformula property if a formula $A \rightarrow B$ is a subformula of itself?

Two of the texts I'm reading say that this proof is immediate, but what prevents one from repeatedly applying a rule like:

$\Gamma \vdash A \rightarrow B \\ ----- \\ \Gamma \vdash A \rightarrow B$

Is it that decidability is not actually immediate from the subformula property alone and these authors are implicitly appealing to the specific rules of the logic in question, or am I missing something?

In other words, does decidability only follow from a slightly stronger property like the proper subformula property, or some other strictly decreasing order on sequents?

I am looking specifically at Girard's Proofs and Types, in which he says decidability is an "immediate corollary" of the weak normalization theorem on page 24.

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Proofs in sequent calculi can be represented as directed acyclic graphs instead of lists. In this case, there are no repetitions, and so there is a finite number of proofs that contain only subformulas of the derived sequent. Decidability follows from this finite search space.