(extremely) commonly requested, and granted implicitly for I-don't-know-how-long-but-it-is-a-long-time.

But for quite a while you could still read the permissions list in the play store, and see if it used it. And adding the permission would still give you a warning on upgrade (outside the play store anyway). Both of those (I believe) are gone nowadays.

It's obviously going to be requested by most, but its absence can be extremely relevant, e.g. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=keepass2androi...