Is Operations as bad as this forum makes it out to be?

From browsing this forum, I always thought operations was impossible to break out of. However, I've been networking a lot recently and I've came across quite a few profiles of people who broke out of ops roles into front office roles - at top firms as well. So how impossible actually is this to do?

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