For years one of my favorite experiences (amusing given your username) was being on calls for incidents where they get the dev on for X thing and an exec goes "I thought we got rid of that" and a bunch of people sheepishly explain it wasn't really retired... it was repurposed as an API. I especially loved it when the "retirement" of the broken thing was the execs big achievement. (The comedic nuance often being the thing could have been retired for real, but they demanded a timeline that necessitated the "fake" retirement)

It still happens but it's not a favorite experience anymore. It's just a source of loathing for MBA culture.