That's not reality for most large companies, even though it's the right mindset for most software libraries. Ex: A new legal requirement comes in, resulting in a mandate that fields X and Y for certain queries, that are being done all over the codebase, now have to be tokenized. This is a breaking and mandatory change, with no room to allow systems to stay behind, and expensive consequences.
In this case you'll have a very short transition, between all consumers updating their client code (possibly in a backwards compatible way) and the change in the implicated system being deployed, not the other way around.
If adopting the new API is mandatory, every team should be told why it's mandatory, and we'll reprioritize and get it done. Doing it to our code behind our back is passive-aggressive and likely to break stuff, because who is monitoring and reporting on a change in our system's behavior that we didn't even see?
In this case you'll have a very short transition, between all consumers updating their client code (possibly in a backwards compatible way) and the change in the implicated system being deployed, not the other way around.