Oh man, I can remember product owners asking for something that wasn’t what they really wanted because they thought what they wanted would be hard to implement, but of course what they really wanted was easier to do than what they asked for.
A decade ago, a family friend with a band wanted help with burning their CDs.
Timidly, "hat in hand, eyes down", they asked if I could maybe, possibly, add 2 seconds of silence in front of their recorded tracks? It's OK if I couldn't, they'd understand.
"I finished it while we were talking"
"Really?? Amazing!! That's awesome! Didn't know you could do that!!
Now, can you also remove John's guitar from this song?"
They really had no clue that removing an instrument from a finished mix is HARD, as opposed to adding 2 seconds of silence (and for context this was years before the current deluge of "AI Powered" apps that might conceivably actually do that).