The same could be said for developers, devops or any other role. At any company nothing is really done solo any more and all people have "agendas" or their own

The same could be said for developers, devops or any other role. At any company nothing is really done solo any more and all people have "agendas" or their own ideas of the path forward. If you think writing software or doing sysadmin/operations work doesn't involve working with people then you are in the wrong trade sir.