From the perspective of an employer, this is mostly nonsense.
> But you are seen primarily as a gap-filler
You are, if the org works, seen as a person fulfilling an important enough function (because... otherwise you would not be hired) and if you then do that, that is fantastic. When anything doesn't work, that sucks, and that is something that every employer understands.
However if you are not okay with the role that you are occupying in that apparatus, or no longer okay, that's not on your employer (unless, of course, you have been mislead about your role or trajectory). Some people are looking to do a specific thing for a long time and getting really good at that, and it makes me sad to see when people try to cast shadow on that. I certainly wouldn't, but I would caution against projecting your own value judgements onto other people. It says more about how you look at the world, and what kind of place you would create, than it says about the company you work for.
> But you are seen primarily as a gap-filler
You are, if the org works, seen as a person fulfilling an important enough function (because... otherwise you would not be hired) and if you then do that, that is fantastic. When anything doesn't work, that sucks, and that is something that every employer understands.
However if you are not okay with the role that you are occupying in that apparatus, or no longer okay, that's not on your employer (unless, of course, you have been mislead about your role or trajectory). Some people are looking to do a specific thing for a long time and getting really good at that, and it makes me sad to see when people try to cast shadow on that. I certainly wouldn't, but I would caution against projecting your own value judgements onto other people. It says more about how you look at the world, and what kind of place you would create, than it says about the company you work for.