When I think about managing identities and privileges within an organization, one of my favorite analogies for the whole privileged identity lifecycle is biblical.

Everything starts "in the beginning" with a super user. Whether someone starts with a server or a workstation, creates on-premise solutions for their network infrastructure, or builds out a cloud, they'll always have to start out with an account with god-like power that will control all other accounts accessing that resource going forward in the future.

Now, if you were not there at the setup of new resources, you'd probably be unaware that there was a superuser account created at the genesis. But that superuser account never goes away and in most cases is used day-to-day, either by someone or something (either applications or automated systems).