For me, the stress about making decisions as an employee isn't about making a choice.

It's knowing that any moment a manager is going to wander along and change it from under me. So I might as well ask the manager first.

It showed up on my performance reviews that I'm bothering other people with questions and I should make my own choices, so I started doing that and documenting every time the choice I made got overturned by a manager. Next performance review when it came up I brought out my list. My performance reviewer was pissed at me for documenting this and I was let go four months later. :)

I would love a job where people let me make decisions after decision after decision

And yeah you could say that if my manager had to overturn my decisions that often it probably meant that I made bad decisions, and maybe that's true, but I don't think so. It was often things like "this is the best solution but it will take longer", "This low priority, do it the quick way instead". But priorities changed a lot.

But for me to be able to make decision after decision, I need to know what the over-riding guidelines are. I need to know what we're trying to build, and know it well enough that I know how my part fits.

And then I need to be able to tell when I can make a decision, and when I don't have enough information to make that decision and therefore need to ask questions of someone who has a better handle on the overall picture.