Is anatomical degeneration impossible in vertebrates?

Axolotls, olms, and sirens stayed in the juvenile stage of salamanders, and the latter seem to be well established in that form. I’ve seen one example of a bullfrog tadpole that didn’t metamorphose and kept growing to the size of a large adult, but it would take a whole bunch of unlikely coincidences for multiple individuals to do that at the same time and have the capability of reproducing.

I suppose caecilians could be an even older example of this than sirens…