What you described reflects that corporate structure and might be industry wide. They look at code as only valuable in the monetary return it makes. They might even consider it a cost center. That will always be a less than pleasant place to work in an organization.

So find places and maybe start at industries that consider their code an asset or profit center.

It’s ultimately just a valuation perspective, but understand to a business everything has a market context or business case. It’s can be infuriating, but better to know the system than blindly suffer through it.