SRE is a 'say no to powerful people' job as well. I think for this to work the leadership needs to show support for it. The friction is still there, but in more tolerable areas. I bet for ethics this isn't the case at OAI, but everyone values security and stability.

For an SRE there can be more directed hate received from the junior employees, that want to release new features they developed. Especially because there is less accountability across orgs. Security is an interesting one because it seems to have less of this friction, maybe because it's more clear cut what is an issue.