Easy things appear hard to upper management. Hard times appear to be easy. Then you see a bunch of people getting promoted by working on "hard" things while you are left dealing with "easy" things. Good leadership senses this dichotomy. There are also things you cannot tell anyone in sufficient detail how difficult they are and no matter what you do - they always appear to be easy. Everytime I pickup a hobby, I underestimate it. By a lot. The depth and endeavor for human expertise never ceases to amaze me. You're alone a lot of times and I find solace in the fact that my brain is a machine that takes calories as input and produces heat + code. Might as well try to take on hard things regardless of what others think of it. I'll be left with a real kick of pleasure by solving problems than fake titles obtained by excessive misuse of vocal cords.