I know - it's very misleading because it doesn't actually do minimal logging for it.
If you watch the log records, it's a metadata-only operation to unhook the allocation unit and put it on the deferred-drop queue. Go back into the log a few seconds later and you'll see all the pages being deallocated. I demo'd it in my Pluralsight course on logging.
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