I worked at a company recently where I couldn't get a team to do the fairly simple task of cleaning up our git ignore (so we wouldn't have to painstakingly add certain files to the index every time we changed something) so I take it as a massive accomplishment moving to git within two years.

If I know anything about work, I doubt this is all they did for two years. Business doesn't care you have an important project. They will bug you to do other things.

Yeah, maybe it's one of those reading between the lines things, but I think anyone familiar with burnout would understand.

There are few efforts as truly thankless in many organizations as fixing things.