Elevation is required to access information about the system. Microsoft has determined that this information requires elevated permissions.
Do note that it will also run some tests, but security wise speaking, it probably could be run by a normal user.
Then again, in system properties, opening device manager also requires elevation. There's not a "view only" mode either, probably for the very same reason.
If its just lazy or it has some technical reasons why it requires elevation is probably only known by Microsoft.