This is a very cynical take (I'm cranky from my second vaccine dose), but:

Imagine how much work, how much energy and effort, went into building an ML-based image cropping feature, just because an up-and-coming Designer decreed that a certain specific crop ratio was the most aesthetically pleasing to the human eye...

...so that years later, after countless hours of additional user research, they would just remove the feature because it doesn't work, and award themselves a medal for doing it.