As a senior dev theoretically on track for principal, I'm finding coding occupies maybe 10% of my time over a full year. The rest is largely in "leadership" mee

As a senior dev theoretically on track for principal, I'm finding coding occupies maybe 10% of my time over a full year. The rest is largely in "leadership" meetings where we argue over details about goal language and trying to figure out how to blame project failures on "dependencies". Not really what I went into this field for. I miss my halcyon days being a low rank engineer churning out project tasks, but I do get the need for technical people to be providing the right guidance to help herd the cats in management.