[waythenewsgoes]

Likely involves their most senior devs bypassing normal deployment procedures / access controls. In this case, to be able to edit their live production environment instance instead relying on Workers KV / other impacted internal services (which a lot of their infrastructure relies on) Which would then enable a proper rollback. The aim being to restore service as quickly as possible to minimize the customer impact.

[pixl97]

Working with some large companies this sounds likely. They'll typically have all changes occur in a testing environment and get pushed to prod via automation.