There’s a point in many senior engineers’ careers where they have a great idea for a big architectural change or technical investment that would be critical to their organization’s success.
They write up an RFC, send it out for review, get some vaguely approving comments…and then nothing gets added to the roadmap. This lack of feedback and results is frustrating. The organization is wasting time avoiding an important problem and the senior engineer doesn’t get to show the multi-team, multi-year impact they need to get promoted to staff engineer!
This is all part of the learning curve for operating at the next level.