I've been gathering anonymous feedback from teams I've worked with as a lead or eng mgr. I usually ask the scrum master or someone neutral to talk to the team a

I've been gathering anonymous feedback from teams I've worked with as a lead or eng mgr. I usually ask the scrum master or someone neutral to talk to the team and gather a few bullet points. I always talk to the team first and ask them for willingness and permission. The one single thing that keeps repeating is something along the line of "we don't know what your doing". Not as in we don't believe in you, or we haven't seen you in the office for past few weeks, but they don't understand where my focus goes. And that's on purpose. I've been battling with myself for very long time about it. I'm past "I identify with the company" credo, but I always wanted to shield my teams from distractions and bullshit. I don't feel comfortable coming back to my team saying that I just had the conversation with CTO and he's so toxic that I have to wash myself, or that I've fighting for the last two weeks to not get the team fired, or any other usual corporate machiavellian schemes that happens on a daily basis.