In every good company there is always more work to do than workers, sometimes significantly so. Technical debt, features that may or may not be useful, features

In every good company there is always more work to do than workers, sometimes significantly so. Technical debt, features that may or may not be useful, features that are useful but deprioritized in favor of even more useful stuff. So yes, they're just going to put some things in the backlog again, it's totally normal.