It does suck how much of the time you wind up in the situation that, to make any progress, you have to work in secret behind some smokescreen of other less usef

It does suck how much of the time you wind up in the situation that, to make any progress, you have to work in secret behind some smokescreen of other less useful work, to keep the micromanaging and the hemming and hawing from consuming any improvements. It's not uncommon that orders of magnitude more time wasted in debate and FUD'ing round on things than it takes to actually do them.