Appreciate the balanced feedback. It echos what some of the longer tenured engineers have advised me.

One colleague whom I have worked with in a previous role and has a similar mindset to me said that he just does the 1 PR a day and spends the rest of his time on OSS for satisfaction.

I took that onboard and have been ramping up my PR count over the last week without making suggestions - but I suspect the reputational damage has been done and I have soured relationships as, contrary to the 1 PR a day metric, my manager quizzed me on what I was doing after submitting my PRs in our 1:1.

Appreciate it and will certainly keep that advice in mind for the next role