In my case I have regularly found myself deep inside the bus factor zone because I had a lot of knowledge acquired through working on so many things. Raising th

In my case I have regularly found myself deep inside the bus factor zone because I had a lot of knowledge acquired through working on so many things. Raising the issue "I'm a roadblock" or "I'm overburdened" doesnt seem to work as you pointed out. It seems this is just a sign to a manager to do more managing to you. The real fix, in my opinion, is to actually hire people. Tech has gotten into this fetish of "dev ops as a culture" or "admin as a culture" or whatever nonsense. These are just excuses to not hire teams to take this work on. Overburdening developers is exactly what they want by design. I suspect this is because developers are paid so much they want to "feel like they're getting their moneys worth" out of them. Tech culture is toxic and full of abuse parroted gleefully by a lot of these startups HN tends to adore. Leaving companies doesn't even help because its a problem in the culture of tech. Until developers just outright refuse to do nonsense like maintain kubernetes clusters, perform SRE tasks, etc the pain will continue. I look forward to the day I can retire from this awful industry. I unfortunately have many years left of 60 hours weeks to go.