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Every other part of a business runs on politics (i.e. bullshit). If you don’t want to be dealing with that 100% of the time, you need someone else to do it for you. And they will necessarily have to expose you to some of it, sometimes, to get info from you so they can communicate what’s going on to the rest of the business. Without the rest of the business doing what they do, you have nowhere to work.

And sorry, unlike a program you’re writing, you don’t have any say in how the logic works (or doesn’t). The rules are set and you’re in the system. You might be able to find some variations in other companies.