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After analyzing some more examples which came to my mind I think this usage is pretty well alive.
Он стремится в директора. (Stress on "а": в директорА) -> Lit. "He aspires to directors." It means...

After some thinking I came across some more examples in a bit different context.

There are also expressions like "взять/брать в жёны/мужья".
A взяла в мужья Б. - A is a woman, and she married B...

You have asked a very good question indeed.
Here we see one of examples of the "old accusative" which is formed as the inanimate accusative despite the noun being animate. To my knowledge, in old...