It gets worse. If you're caught in a power grab/political game as a developer, some manager consciously use this to slow you down in comparison to their favorit

It gets worse. If you're caught in a power grab/political game as a developer, some manager consciously use this to slow you down in comparison to their favorite developer. I was a developer brought into a team along with codebase. They would allow their own devs to go full SV-style, free. But when it comes to me; "please check with PO, create a jira subtask for this"