I've seen the teapot error used when the internal route of a request was circuitous (many servers involved) and a 500 could have come form anywhere. It was used

I've seen the teapot error used when the internal route of a request was circuitous (many servers involved) and a 500 could have come form anywhere. It was used as a canary, and only on this codebase which was bought-in and absolutely awful.