To be fair you can greatly reduce the necessity of those other things you list if you take on a role of contributing to FOSS dependencies used by where you work

To be fair you can greatly reduce the necessity of those other things you list if you take on a role of contributing to FOSS dependencies used by where you work. Because you can have a significant portion of your time devoted to that work & it won't involve those things. You also then gain a passive political advantage as feature requests to that dependency will fall under your responsibility as the contact point between the project & company Note that I may be totally wrong, as I've never found myself in too bureaucratic a team, so have generally found myself able to do whatever I want (within reason ofc, but I try to be reasonable)