If you are magnetically destroying hard drives as part of decommissioning, that's not really the same thing. You're not using admin access to do it, and you're not making a change that permanently applies to all future use of the device (because there is no future use).
Yes but we were talking about hardware level changes and the person you responded to specifically said flashing was okay. So I thought you had something relevant to that in mind.
Anyone can delete a file. Nobody wants to ban deleting files.
If you are magnetically destroying hard drives as part of decommissioning, that's not really the same thing. You're not using admin access to do it, and you're not making a change that permanently applies to all future use of the device (because there is no future use).