I am that rare person. I was using it as a systems language in 1986. Without the Turbo extensions. (We did have separate compilation.) Why yes, I am still bitter, does it show?
If you had separate compilation you were not using unextended Pascal. And it does not sound like you thought it was suitable, so you don't seem to fit the description?
Who in the world pushed a limited Pascal on you that late?
It does seem like something Wirth himself would have seen as an awful decision given that he'd worked on replacements for Pascal for a decade at that point, and wrapped up his work on Modula-2 to move on to Oberon.
I don't know who made the decision. It certainly wasn't me. But I only had a year of experience, and I had been laid off for three months, and I didn't realize the impact the language choice would have.
This was on a medical instrument, so maybe people thought of it as a "safe" language - one that couldn't buffer overflow and corrupt memory. But doing an embedded system with memory-mapped I/O in a Pascal without the Turbo extensions... yeah, that was a less than ideal choice.
