Same, I was at the level I was directly working with Directors and indirectly with VPs.

I literally had projects blocked because I didn’t provide a promo vision for the Directors to make VP if they funded me. This is business critical shit, my direct supervisor literally told me this. They were angry I didn’t devote any time to showing the promo opportunities. No complaint with any part of my justification beyond that.

Business case was open and shut, low technical requirements, minimal overhead and low cost. All they wanted to know was how to make VP, that’s it.

So yeah, I quit.

(Also to the down-voters who likely work at Google, if you’re not in the room when decisions are made you don’t know how the company works.)