I once spent quite a bit of time because I fat fingered a huge retraction amount and failed to spot it for days. You wouldn't think the slicer would have allowed a 50mm retraction distance either. It was a direct drive extruder and I was unloading my filament when I thought my extruder was stopping up randomly.

Thanks for sharing. It feels good to know you are not alone. I had a similar experience once where after lots of debugging I realized the "PLA" I was using was in fact PETG and I was extruding way too cold.

I sort of did this today. I was testing what each setting in orca slicer's scarf seam section did and I had the scarf flow at 0.6 and forgot I even had scarf seam on but some seemingly random features ended up as disconnected lines and I blew through like half a roll in calibration prints that came out flawless or near flawless before I realized