I say it's a mistake to expect to have creative control at all, over something owned by the corporation you work for. Best to accept that it's not your baby you

I say it's a mistake to expect to have creative control at all, over something owned by the corporation you work for. Best to accept that it's not your baby you're working on. You don't get the profits or the glory or any of that. Just do your tasks and treat it like what it is: a job. Creative control and passion and all that is for side projects and things you build yourself. I just feel it's setting yourself up for disappointment to think otherwise. Companies are not founded to provide the ideal environment for software development. They are founded to make products and hopefully a profit. You might argue that a smart business person would provide that environment in order to get their product built, and maybe you'd be right, but that also risks building the thing developers want to build as opposed to what could sell. And as soon as you intervene, poof goes the ideal environment. So even if the environment exists at a company, as at the beginning of this story, it's best understood as a happy accident and shouldn't be expected to last.