[bluefirebrand]

You're offering the very common advice

This only works if your managers are actually invested and interested in having you grow.

If you start trying to take ownership of things without being asked you might also just be told to stay in your lane. If you start raising problems pro-actively you may be told to pipe down.

Yes, there's always "go somewhere else" except bad managers are more common than you think.

[ludston]

It's fine to prefer the comfort of familiar problems and obstacles, but you shouldn't pretend to yourself that you haven't chosen to embrace them over fear of the unknown.