This is already what I and the others I've spoken to do (who haven't given up). But, at the types of organisation I'm describing, it's near impossible. You kno

This is already what I and the others I've spoken to do (who haven't given up). But, at the types of organisation I'm describing, it's near impossible. You know that Airflow instance I mentioned? Three years later, that team still doesn't have anything to schedule Python workloads, despite extremely smart people trying to angle the politics of the damn thing to finally get traction for months on end. When you've got no leverage, you've got no leverage, and you don't want to spend years of your precious life arguing so that at some point, in a few years, you can do your job properly. I absolutely agree with what you're saying, but I suppose I'm saying that, at many jobs, you're better off leaving and somehow locating the places where you have a chance at accomplishing what you've laid out. There's a sliding scale of incompetence, and some organisations are close enough to competence that you can actually move them the right way with some diligence and effort.