Yes, but I definitely also see the opposite quite a bit: Somebody several layers down thought that something was an edge case, resolved it in a strange way, and now you have a chain of stuff above it dealing with the edge case because the bottom layer took a wrong turn.

The most common examples are empty collections: either disallowing them even though it would be possible to handle them, or making a strange choice like using vacuous falsity, i.e.

  all [] == False

(Just for illustration what I mean by "vacuous falsity", Python's all correctly returns True).

Now, every layer above has to special-case these as well, even if they would be a completely normal case otherwise.