I feel highly unsettled at work anytime anyone trys to explain how to do something, which should be a simple local command, with a multitude of tangled services

I feel highly unsettled at work anytime anyone trys to explain how to do something, which should be a simple local command, with a multitude of tangled services, each of which I need to request access to. My manager is obviously more than happy to help, but this friction is killing my motivation and atonomy. The fact this is how we're starting to develop software also helps me understnad why, as a user, all my shit's jenky as hell. OSS (to me) was supposed to allow us to bridge the gap between developers and users, making code easy enough to tweak that when a problem or unwanted behaviour comes up you can just fix it yourself. But it's getting harder and harder to see this dream anymore. There are a lot of nooks and crannies in OSS though, and I know there are still plenty of places where this dream is still very much alive. It's just become less and less mainstream, sadly.