It could. It just doesn’t want to. Why would it? Its your computer.

If you want to delete / including the EFI partition turning your machine into a paperweight you should be allowed to do so.

It becomes a whole different thing when you yourself are a creator of any kind. Sure you can retorrent TBs of movies. But you can’t retake that video from 3 years ago. I have about 2 TB of photos I took. I classify that as media.