I asked my manager if I should be creating tickets for the work I'm coming up with, and he answered a question I didn't ask, saying he doesn't count sprint points. So I clarified, shouldn't I at least be creating tickets so that we're accounting for it in our sprint planning? And he didn't seem to care.
IMO, it's a 180 degree shift to go from trying to accomplish assigned work to creating new work and accomplishing (or delegating) it / adding it to roadmaps / etc. To me, it wasn't at all obvious that this was what I should be doing, so it was strange to sort of stumble upon it when asking an adjacent question.
It would have been very useful to get an explicit instruction such as "hey, only spend 1/4 of your time on planned work" or similar.
I'm sure there are plenty of people out there who spent their entire career trying to avoid doing assigned work so it's an easier transition, but for rule followers it's a weird change.