Most software engineers in my experience have quite a lot of control, and a large component of growing in your career is learning to perceive the control that you have.

One common misconception the article touches on, for example, is that Jira tickets represent latent task assignments, such that you should always be working on some specific Jira ticket and immediately pick up a new one when you finish or are awaiting review on the last one. That's not how the most successful engineers work, and often it's not even really what management wants.