Discretionary effort used to be the bread and butter of my career. Now the bureaucratic and social project management overhead required for any change makes things too annoying to be worth doing if I don't have to. I don't care if the product works long term, I don't care if the company succeeds long term, I just do my tickets until I find the next job.
same. being proactive in a reactive job is never rewarded in my exp.
you found an issue? now its your problem. that issue crops up again in the future? you must have fucked up.
its just not worth it. the pm's and other management are too small brained and they work on negative assumptions always.