Nobody talked about secure-erasing files to prevent recovery by
forensic means or undelete ("unformat") utilities, that issue was
introduced into the discussion by nitpickers on this thread, who
started arguments about what low-lever formating is, or what the
format word should mean.
Well actually the nit picking is very very important here.
It's because 'writing all the sectors with zero' doesn't blank the media
that you don't want to pick a name that implies anything like that such
as 'erase', but want to use a term like 'format' which in the generic
sense does would avoid such confusion.
You could put secure erase on the menu too but its probably an obscure
option and best kept separate I would have thought.
So I don't actually think there is a problem.
Alan