In my first job out of college I was regularly asked not for point estimates, but for time based LOE estimates. As a junior engineer. My inability to do so honestly based on a lack of information was my first point of big, me-versus-management friction. Eventually we compromised to confidence intervals, which TBH I think provided more and better information and a few other developers eventually picked up using.

I wasn't going to commit myself to a hard number if it wasn't life-or-death stuff. The company (and no company since) was worth that.