I personally am alarmed when my boss shares the truth/reality with me about anything. Managers don’t share knowledge/power unless for a very specific, planned reason.
When I won my little war, it was easy to tell he was a sore loser. In his mind, the lowly and uncool serfs were for his beckoned call and were to never be uppity.
I also figured there was a knife or two being sharpened with my name on it by others in management. I was offered a job a couple months later and I took it. Most of the normals were kind of bummed at me leaving. A few months later, I heard from one of my friends that asked me if I was interested in coming back. I bet it killed some of the management to even consider it. I didn’t go back.
My only goal was to get a long overdue promotion. Nothing else. What ended up was all the ones in my grade (12 maybe) were promoted to the next grade. All well and good.
Some definitely deserved an upgrade and suffered longer than me. I guess it was a mass patch to keep the serfs from getting ideas that a higher being wasn’t so high and invulnerable after all.