That's par for the course for technically orientated roles. I was labelled 'defensive' and denied a pay increase because a business development executive wanted to make our documentation dynamic based on user access, and I pointed out it was difficult to find a solution when users can have over 400 access permissions, which varied depending on country, and our documentation was 900 HTML pages, some of which were equavlent to 200 A4 pages.
If you are the most knowledgeable person then you get blamed for their bullshit fantasies being impossible or unwise (or illegal)
They blocked the damn fire service pages... during bushfire season. I hope there is some law that is breaking so they can tear Facebook a new one, it's massively irresponsible and outright dangerous
This applies to everything though. If I drill of oil and am 'too successful' and abuse my position the Gov cracks down on me. Same if a telco is 'too successful'
And you are forgetting that 'too successful' in these cases is:
literally has billions in profit
uses market position in an anti competitive way
I make way more in my unionised engineering role than I did previously working at a multinational software firm, and more importantly when I have problems with the company I have access to support and legal advice. Making bank working on software is great until the company starts to stuff you around, or some executive takes a dislike to you
These replies seem to forget that a single person can destroy your career, livelihood and relationships because they have misunderstood an interaction