I've "bricked" many automotive systems where they weren't truly unrecoverable, but doing so involved another team disassembling them. The parts were cheaper to throw out instead.

Being strict about the word "bricked" and limiting it to the truly unrecoverable situations just makes it nigh-on useless.

Very few things can make a modern system truly unrecoverable if one is willing to pour unreasonable resources into them. It's incredibly common to be in a situation where a system is unrecoverable by you though. There's no practical difference between these two except that one depends on the surrounding context.