Ridiculously high “system data”

I picked up my brand new iPad today to a “storage full” notification. I had checked it just a few days ago out of curiosity after installing apps and it was only about half full at around 30/64 gb.

After seeing the notification I went to settings to find over 30 gigabytes of storage being used for “system data”. This is insane. That’s over half of its storage. No apple product I have ever owned has done this. It might be expected for this needing to be cleared after prolonged use, but I’ve only had the thing for a week.

I’m hoping I don’t need to factory reset this iPad already, but if I do and it continues to happen I will seriously consider returning it. Can’t justify the cost if I’m having to do this much troubleshooting out of the box.