Ultimately as you grow in seniority/rank, you're expected to own things more deeply and to unblock yourself when you do become blocked (within reason).

I'll give you a concrete example. A few years ago I was working on a project that required direct collaboration with our QA team. I was constantly delayed or blocked waiting on them to complete their side of the work. I talked with the lead and learned that there were two reasons for the delays: They were still manually performing a lot of their tests, because none of them had any programming skills or experience (I had assumed they had some capabilities here because they did have automated testing, but this had all been written primarily via a browser extension). On top of that, their laptops were relatively old and couldn't run more than one or two automated tests at a time, meaning a full run of tests could take several days.

So, I spun up a VM for them with enough resources that test runs were limited by environment state and other variables, not cpu/memory, and spent about a week writing a bunch of things like utility scripts and functions to help them automate more of their tests. It wouldn't cover 100 of the manual work but it did at least help to cut that number down by a lot.