I once had a freelance gig to upgrade an environment that hadn't been touched in years. One server had a 1500 day uptime and I could find no evidence of any in-place upgrades. They made me watch a bunch of IT security / process videos before starting the project, though. This was a decent sized organization with 100's of employees and 100's of millions in revenue.
My job at a "near unicorn" "we're still a startup 10 years later" was no better. Distros that were no longer updated. Obsolete python versions. Servers that hadn't been rebooted in years. All environments in a single AWS account. I could go on...