Count yourself lucky you had the necessary kit to actually interact with the codebase at all. I've seen large corporations dragging their heels getting basic l

Count yourself lucky you had the necessary kit to actually interact with the codebase at all. I've seen large corporations dragging their heels getting basic laptops, database access or repo permissions out to devs, even when there's some critical fix required. Accept there's little you can do in these situations except play their game. You're now going to have to figure out whether the financial gain is worth the loss of agency, simple as that.