Management is the different between you being given ample time to do a straightforward or decently challenging task, and being given a ridiculously small amount of time to do something impossible.
Management is the difference between you being supported in the work that you do and you feeling like you're on the edge of a precipice with potential freefall if you slip up.
Management is the difference between your work seeming like its a valuable contribution to a bigger picture, or that it's a pointless sisyphean exercise in futility cynically driven by profit or ignorance.
Management is the difference between you feeling like the pigeon or the statue.
Management is the difference between you feeling like your job is "programming" or "convincing a room full of ungrateful monkey morons that you deserve to get paid".
Management can be the difference between whether the obnoxious team mate completely totals your project or not. It can be the difference between whether you gain the right experience and be in the right position to get a promotion. Whether you work reasonable hours or whether you're clawing back time late into the night, knowing that you're putting your social and family life on hold to meet the deadlines that somebody else agreed long ago with no knowledge of what it would actually take to complete the task or deliver the project on time or to budget.
In short, sounds like you've got good management, dude. Good job.