You're not wrong, but FFS it gets old having to constantly justify your existence in a corporate structure unless you're in Sales. People don't get into technical writing to have to detour into instrumentation, stats modeling, etc. They want to do the work, not a bunch of work to justify doing the work that everybody (except executives) understand needs to be done.

Just once I'd like to see the burden put on decision makers to understand the needs of the business they run instead of having to make pretty decks they can pick over once a quarter when trying to figure out what line items to justify cutting to get a better bonus.