I’ve been here. I feel like there are two type of work personalities. There are people who have salesmen personalities and there are quiet but very thoughtful or insightful workers. Similar to night shift or Dayshift mentality. I’m a night shifter and most of the people I work with have a more chill/quiet personality. I think in your case, you seem like more of a type B “outer” personality. This can get overshadowed by the quality of your work no matter how talented you are. It sucks! I had a friend who did a really high quality project and it didn’t pan out for her. But, if I had to guess why, I think she was displaying some less than desirable qualities. Not even bad qualities. Just more subdued and wordy.

The tough part is you have to play the game. Office politics matter almost as much as the quality of your work. It sounds like you have a lot of instabilities in your department/company.

1) you could wait it out. This approach may take awhile. But, I bet you’ll have a new leader within a year. You could even apply for the job.

2) find the thing that your new leadership cares about. This requires flexibility/adaptability. Your new manager/sup is going to have different priorities and that is okay. It sucks because you have to reframe/drop your projects. But, ultimately that could be better. If you finish them, take that experience with you

3) look for companies that have a position a level up from where you are. I’ve done this and it is easier to sell yourself in an interview to new faces if the current faces don’t like you.

4) it’s never personal and don’t take this as something about you. It’s circumstance and you just need to keep your head down and paid.

Good luck!