honestly though that’s what i keep telling my co-workers especially if they struggle on a thursday or friday and say things like “i just have to pull through to get to the weekend”. they usually laugh and think i’m kidding, but a bit of reassurance helps.
i was just in the same situation and stumbled upon an issue, but more on that later.
nvme cli might be what you are looking for, the arch wiki has got a good tutorial https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Solid_state_drive/NVMe
but: it depends on how you connect the nvme ssd to your system. if you use an external enclosure/adapter the nvme would show up as /dev/sda because it is not attached to the proper interface. i did not manage to get nvme cli to work in that case.
but, and that is the much easier way to solve that issue: the bios is your friend. most modern bios provide a secure erase nvme option. so just stick the nvme ssd in your computer and try to do it that way. only took a couple of seconds due to the way it works on nvme ssds as far as i understand.
that said: i’ve got two older WD nvme ssds that i could’t format using four (!) different PC’s and their bioses, non of the manufactures software for windows or bootable usb sticks would work either (tried the latter on three different PC’s) and the external enclosure solution provided no help either. only the bios of an older asrock board easily accepted the nvme and managed to secure erase it. no clue what went wrong the first times but at least they are clean now.