Question for design managers/creative directors

So I work for a company as a mid level industrial designer, I've been here for 5 years now. There are 8 other designers of different types and we have all been with the company for similar lengths of time.

When big/new/creative projects came in we used to all work on them as a group and give each other feed back and submit as a team, but a couple years ago we reorganized things a bit and two of us were promoted to CDs to take the load off the VP.

Ever since then I have very seldom gotten any creative projects, I've been almost exclusively doing updates and changes to the other designers work. I find this super frustrating because our culture used to be all about getting better and working as a team, but now me and a few others just catch the slag of the new CDs. Changes and new projects used to be distributed evenly. The CDs seem to recognize this because at our annual reviews the last couple years they mentioned getting us more involved in intial phases of design and allowing us to be part of calls and meetings again like it used to be.

Well, nothing has changed! Two designers have quit in the last six months out of frustration. Things have been a little slower this week with not enough work to go around. so when a new exciting project came in they involved me in the briefing and I've been really excited to stretch my creative chops again

Then I got pulled off to be available to work on changes for small things coming in :(

I want to continue to work on this project in my free time and submit some concepts to my CDs. Is that an immature move? I feel like if they aren't involving us because they don't think we can ideate at their level, I'd at least like the opportunity to get their feedback so I can improve

Is there a tactful way to do this? I feel like more concepts can only be helpful, right? I am the only designer who was pulled off this project

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