I wonder if some large account acquisition somewhere somehow wound up contingent on implementing this functionality... but technical due diligence during the in

I wonder if some large account acquisition somewhere somehow wound up contingent on implementing this functionality... but technical due diligence during the integration process identified that it was absolutely irrelevant... and it was subsequently declared that it was easier to just pretend the feature exists to keep the middle-manglement happy because the account was important. Maybe. Going fishing in thin air here.