It’s MY iPAD, let me delete stuff!

Dear Apple, I can remove apps from my iPad, except the Photos app (there may be others but my issue is with the Photos app). I don’t sync my iCloud Photos to my iPad. I don’t use it for that, it’s purely as a consumption device. I watch movies and TV shows on it. I occasionally use it to write with. Ultimately I only need four apps on it. Apple TV, Disney+, Ulysses, and Journal. Right now, the Photos app is annoying me. There are NO photos or videos on my iPad. Yet the ‘Documents & Data’ are taking up 2.4GB of space. Why? And more pertinently, why the fuck can’t I delete it? Digging in to this I know that, as for all Apple apps, the ‘Documents & Data’ is a fluctuating space of cached files etc, but the solution to clear it usually to delete the app. Except I can’t delete the Photos app. Apple don’t want me to. As much as I enjoy Apple products, it’s stuff like this that drives me crazy —I await the Androidists chant of ‘we can do that on Android, you silly Apple user!— and makes me…