If progress has felt heavier for you than the effort seems to justify, that is not a story you invented. It is real, and it is worth naming plainly. And naming it is where most advice stops. It tells you the system is the problem, hands you a feeling of vindication, and sends you back into the same week unchanged.
We go one step further. Alongside what the system is doing, there are things within your reach that you may not have been shown. How you are reading the season you are in, and whether your strategy actually fits it. Where your real strengths sit, and whether the right people can see them. Whether the work you are doing is the work that gets you promoted, or simply the work that keeps you busy. These are not failings. They are gaps in information, and information can be corrected.