I hope I am blind to something here... but every time I want to wipe a USB that had a linux distro on it (Mint, in this case) I have to hop into Windows and use DISKPART. Just now the stupid thing didn't say it was read only (by flags), but I had to clear that anyway before it would clean
I am wiping this to create a macOS installer. I tried to clear it on MacOS, EndeavourOS (with partitionmanager), and Windows (Explorer before DISKPART)
All this said, I love DISKPART and I will never speak ill of it. Its simple and effective and just works.