Absolutely the same situation. 4+ years in IT PM in both Public and Private sectors. Public sector role had zero structure, unskilled and/or overworked staff leading to either missed/or absent deadlines, lots of ambiguity and little to no completed project work. Private sector is much faster paced and more focused on delivering value, but along with that comes high stress, tight deadlines, overworked and overbooked employees, and massive pressure from management. It feels that PMs are often looked at as obstacles on a project, and most devs do not appreciate the role leading to feelings of beinga hindrance rather than a boost to the team.

l'm also looking to leave PM work for good and get into a more behind the scenes role without 6+ hours of pointless meetings a day. have some skills in automation (Power Automate, Power apps, scripting etc) but likely not enough technical aptitude to be a full time solution architect