> I prefer to have hard discussions about pivoting or making changes so that we can improve the product, or company, for our users.

Right.

The user and the client are two different groups of people. If you want to make things better for the client, then sure, that's rational.

If you want to make things better for the user at the expense of the client, then that's irrational.

If you want a job that lets you serve the users, then get one where the users are also the client.

In most dev jobs, the software users are not the same group of people as the client.