Comment 1 for bug 2004551

As expected, on reboot all is fine for the service status

ubuntu@node-horsea:~$ systemctl status ssh.service
● ssh.service - OpenBSD Secure Shell server
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/ssh.service; disabled; preset: enabled)
    Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/ssh.service.d
             └─00-socket.conf
     Active: active (running) since Thu 2023-02-02 10:54:40 UTC; 12min ago
TriggeredBy: ● ssh.socket
       Docs: man:sshd(8)
             man:sshd_config(5)
    Process: 2689 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/sshd -t (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   Main PID: 2690 (sshd)
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 38220)
     Memory: 5.3M
        CPU: 894ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/ssh.service
             └─2690 "sshd: /usr/sbin/sshd -D [listener] 0 of 10-100 startups"

Feb 02 11:06:27 node-horsea sshd[14629]: Accepted publickey for ubuntu from 10.172.196.173 port 47348 ssh2: RSA SHA256:KyONnhWWzlbscZNTHPZ25GWCXDQY5u/UD72EtQcwtqU
Feb 02 11:06:27 node-horsea sshd[14629]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user ubuntu(uid=1000) by (uid=0)
Feb 02 11:06:27 node-horsea sshd[14629]: pam_env(sshd:session): deprecated reading of user environment enabled
Feb 02 11:06:58 node-horsea sshd[14735]: Accepted publickey for ubuntu from 10.172.196.173 port 55016 ssh2: RSA SHA256:KyONnhWWzlbscZNTHPZ25GWCXDQY5u/UD72EtQcwtqU
Feb 02 11:06:58 node-horsea sshd[14735]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user ubuntu(uid=1000) by (uid=0)
Feb 02 11:06:59 node-horsea sshd[14735]: pam_env(sshd:session): deprecated reading of user environment enabled
Feb 02 11:07:03 node-horsea sshd[14796]: Accepted publickey for ubuntu from 10.172.196.173 port 57034 ssh2: RSA SHA256:KyONnhWWzlbscZNTHPZ25GWCXDQY5u/UD72EtQcwtqU
Feb 02 11:07:03 node-horsea sshd[14796]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user ubuntu(uid=1000) by (uid=0)
Feb 02 11:07:03 node-horsea sshd[14796]: pam_env(sshd:session): deprecated reading of user environment enabled
Feb 02 11:07:03 node-horsea sshd[14796]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session closed for user ubuntu
ubuntu@node-horsea:~$ systemctl status ssh.socket
● ssh.socket - OpenBSD Secure Shell server socket
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/ssh.socket; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Thu 2023-02-02 10:54:21 UTC; 12min ago
      Until: Thu 2023-02-02 10:54:21 UTC; 12min ago
   Triggers: ● ssh.service
     Listen: [::]:22 (Stream)
      Tasks: 0 (limit: 38220)
     Memory: 8.0K
        CPU: 894us
     CGroup: /system.slice/ssh.socket

Feb 02 10:54:21 node-horsea systemd[1]: Listening on OpenBSD Secure Shell server socket.

And out of this condition it can even complete the package configuration.

ubuntu@node-horsea:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure openssh-server
/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: openssh-server is broken or not fully installed
ubuntu@node-horsea:~$ sudo apt-get install --fix-broken
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up openssh-server (1:9.0p1-1ubuntu8) ...
Replacing config file /etc/ssh/sshd_config with new version
Replacing config file /etc/ssh/sshd_config with new version
Synchronizing state of ssh.service with SysV service script with /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install.
Executing: /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install disable ssh
Warning: Stopping ssh.service, but it can still be activated by:
  ssh.socket
rescue-ssh.target is a disabled or a static unit not running, not starting it.
ubuntu@node-horsea:~$ echo $?
0