Ask HN: Am I the only software engineer unable to build anything?

My company has bought hundreds of 3rd party systems and glued them with bubblegum. I should be thinking how to improve the situation and developing but 90% of the time I am running around the office trying to find who is responsible for what. Some weeks I even do not write a single line of code and any change in the current system configuration takes weeks to get approval from some stakeholder somewhere. Also, most of it is "no code" so everybody can change anything.

I have never seen such a situation in my life, just wanted to ask: how common is it?