Sure. Which is why a non-ambiguous format would be preferred, like the ISO standard YYYY-MM-DD.

Which is why if I have to write a date in non-big-endian order I try to spell the month out, e.g. 07 Dec 2022

I now this is a bit beside the topic, but I basically know of two date formats: those with slashes in the, one should ignore because they have no meaning (because they are ambiguous) and an iso-like format which starts with yyyy and uses hyphens and I know I can rely on it to be yyyy-MM-dd so there is no risk of ambiguity (Unless of course someone uses yyyy-dd-MM but I don't think that format is a thing, it would be like writing a quarter past six as 15:06)

The DD-MM-YYYY format is often used with dashes instead of slashes.

Day of month has no meaning without specifying the month, unless you specifically say “this month”.

So providing the day before the month does not provide any contextual advantage.

However, in most cases, the year is not necessary for contextual meaning.

So the alternatives are month + day or month + day and year.

If you don’t understand why something is done, but it’s been done for a long time, chances are that it evolved to be that way for a reason.

If something is arbitrarily dictated to replace an evolved system, there is most likely some information or practical purpose that is lost.