IClould email address as Apple ID

Hi, I'm trying to change my currently email address which is my Apple ID to the iCloud email but apple doesn't allow to use the icloud address.
Why ?

Although it's possible to use an @icloud.com address as an Apple ID when you first set one up, once you have created an Apple ID using a non-Apple address and created an @icloud.com address to go with it, you cannot - aas you have observed - change that to be the ID.
This issue has been debated at long and often acrimonious length in at least one other thread, but the fact is that Apple don't explain their reasoning to us, so we don't know whether it's a technical limitation or an administrative decision. I'm afraid that it is what it is.

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