It’s 2020, designers aren’t allowed to say “we have no power” and “no one listens to us.” Businesses get the power of design or are ready to try to understand it better. Your job is to bridge the gap in understanding or work for someone who knows how and learn how to.
This is anecdotal and not true. I’d try another tact; many designers don’t try hard enough to understand the business, complain more than show up, when they show up they show up with the wrong thing, then they lose ground in a negotiation because they don’t know how to negotiate.