It happened, but not as often as you'd think. In 2017 I was arguing with someone that the back button should work and URLs should be obvious in a fairly large project and they said "people are used to the back button not working - like a bank website".
Path parameters has nothing to do with history replacement breaking the back button, did you mean to respond to someone else?
i've seen people argue about how the back button should work this year on HN