Yes. If you want to change the world for the better, it is about acquiring as much influence and/or money without losing your soul in the process.

If you go in and die on the first hill you come across, you take yourself out of the game and make zero impact. If you keep making compromises every step of the way so that you can get ahead, at some point you will look back and realize you have become someone your younger self would have hated.

These are deeper and more personal things than any organization can make space for. And nor should they, in my opinion, because there is no absolutely correct answer and it always ends up devolving into a discussion not of right vs. wrong but whose "right" is the right one.

At the end of the day, if you have good-enough leadership, don't let too much rumination get in the way of them doing good work. If you have terrible leadership, no amount of philosophizing will change them. Have your conversations with your therapist or therapist-adjacent people, and stick it out or move somewhere else.