How did i2c keep working despite my overlay configuring it wrongly?

I just found an error in my overlay. I was setting the i2c2 pins to the wrong pins. But my bus analyzer and CODEC were on pins P9_19 & 20, and kept seeing traffic there. It seems to just ignore my pinmuxing. I even corrected the GPIO address, but forgot to set the mode, and it's still working. It's very confusing. It really does seem to just be ignoring it.

    fragment@0 {
        target = <&am33xx_pinmux>;
        __overlay__ {

            i2c2_pins: pinmux_i2c2_pins {
                pinctrl-single,pins = <
                    0x150 (SLEWCTRL_SLOW | PIN_INPUT_PULLUP | MUX_MODE2) // P9_22, spi0_scl.i2c2_sda
                    0x154 (SLEWCTRL_SLOW | PIN_INPUT_PULLUP | MUX_MODE2) // P9_21, spi0_d0.i2c2_scl
                >;
            };
        };
    };
    
    fragment@4 {
        target = <&i2c2>;
        __overlay__ {
            #address-cells = <1>;
            #size-cells = <0>;
            clock-frequency = <100000>;
            status = "okay";
            pinctrl-names = "default";
            pinctrl-0 = <&i2c2_pins>;

            tlv320aic3104: tlv320aic3104@0 {
                #sound-dai-cells = <0>;
                compatible = "ti,tlv320aic3104";
                reg = <0x18>;
                gpio-reset = <&gpio1 19 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
                
                AVDD-supply = <&lz_codec_reg>;
                IOVDD-supply = <&lz_codec_reg>;
                DRVDD-supply = <&lz_codec_reg>;
                DVDD-supply = <&lz_codec_reg>;
            };
        };
    };