Many complaints about the passive voice are overblown: it’s a perfectly fine construction and most appropriate in some places. (It’s also frequently misidentified, or applied to any evasive or obfuscatory sentence, whether grammatically active or passive.)
But here is an instance where all the opprobrium is justified:
> So, it was decided to retire it.
“It was decided”? Not you decided or Google decided, but it was decided? Come on.
But here is an instance where all the opprobrium is justified:
> So, it was decided to retire it.
“It was decided”? Not you decided or Google decided, but it was decided? Come on.