I was actually looking forward to giving up some control as I became a manager. Unfortunately, we haven't hired anybody to fill the day to day void I left so I'm still doing my old job + now managing a small team.
You might have to be comfortable letting the void exist, and let your managers deal with the resulting failure. If you continue doing two jobs without escalating the issue, your employer is getting a great deal and has no incentive to correct the situation.
Then maybe your job right now should be hiring?
It should be. Our recruiters haven't found any good for months.
Get a linkedin login and start looking. Seems like recruiting either are focused on other teams, or don't have enough context. Both of those can be helped by you doing some lead generation.
what are u looking for exactly, a good place to attract talented developers is to post jobs on some slack workspaces, many programming languages/frameworks have dedicated slack work spaces where enthusiast developers like to hang out.
i find that people in smaller communities have richer technical skills and often are easier to work with