My first job out of college (2007) involved a lot of removal of early 2000s one-off custom payment processing code. Access DBs full of years worth of credit card numbers, code that just emailed the credit card details to the site owner without keeping a record, etc. It was definitely a different world. Most of them, I just switched to PayPal shopping cart and checkout. In retrospect, I didn't know wtf I was doing and probably shouldn't have been working on it.
Or even separate twin xl mattresses (and box springs if applicable) with a strap kit and shared king fitted sheet. My wife and I did this about 2 years ago and it's been great. She wanted a traditional mattress and I wanted to diy a memory foam mattress with a 6" layer of memory foam* (2-4 is normal). I sink into my viscoelastic cocoon every night and she sleeps on top of a normal mattress.
*Note that this is usually considered uncomfortable and possibly bad for your back. I'm a side sleeper who always had elbow and shoulder pain in the morning and it worked for me, but do your research if you ever decide to diy a mattress. It also weighs about as much as a dead moose.
I was asked to take the StrengthsFinder test (imo kind of similar to Myers-Briggs) after being hired on at my current employer. The results basically said my strengths are ADHD, but in a really positive way. Nobody ever followed up with me on it or mentioned it again. Honestly it was pretty accurate. The job is extremely laid back, no hard deadlines, no emergencies, etc. It's been a huge challenge to maintain a similar level of output when compared to past jobs.
The universe X example has some merit too. The developer got a raise, the business was excited enough to get this feature done ahead of schedule that someone actually put in the effort to push through a raise, and the total cost for this was one man-week of extra work a year later - basically a drop in the bucket, budget-wise.
I experienced scenario #2 on my son's Chromebook during pandemic school closings. One day he logged in with his school account and about half the apps were disabled, including core stuff he needed to do school work. I got the "we can't control your computer, that's not how computers work" speech from the school. It was one of the most frustrating things I've ever experienced. The policies finally got fixed a few days later, but I'm pretty sure the people I talked to thought I was crazy.