A thought. APFS has snapshots. On ZFS systems, it is fairly common to take a snapshot before doing speculative system maintenance that changes the file system significantly, for example, removing retired or abandoned applications. If anything goes wrong, the system can be reverted to the snapshot to take a mulligan.
Eventually, it should be possible to remove the snapshot freeing all the disk blocks belonging to the things that were removed.
A thought. APFS has snapshots. On ZFS systems, it is fairly common to take a snapshot before doing speculative system maintenance that changes the file system significantly, for example, removing retired or abandoned applications. If anything goes wrong, the system can be reverted to the snapshot to take a mulligan.
Eventually, it should be possible to remove the snapshot freeing all the disk blocks belonging to the things that were removed.