Plenty of openings out there. Not worth suffering to get a 2% raise rather than 1%. If they won't let you fix something once a month it's time to get moving.
The whole point of the article is that the vast majority of engineering teams have some power. It's not a license to derail the company with technical OCD, but as in all things… "balance, grasshopper."
Yes, there is 1% who can't follow that advice for various reasons of desperation. Not enough to continue arguing this thread.
Learned helplessness, indeed.