I have never tried to do this myself, for the obvious reasons you've stated, but postgres has a function to do it so clearly enough people did do it:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/functions-uuid.html#...

    uuid_extract_timestamp ( uuid ) → timestamp with time zone
    Extracts a timestamp with time zone from a UUID of version 1 or 7. For other versions, this function returns null. Note that the extracted timestamp is not necessarily exactly equal to the time the UUID was generated; this depends on the implementation that generated the UUID.
    uuid_extract_timestamp('019535d9-3df7-79fb-b466- fa907fa17f9e'::uuid) → 2025-02-23 21:46:24.503-05