how many analytics engineers here work on ad-hoc SQL requests?

hey folks, I'm on a team of "full-stack" analytics folks. Our scope is the entire modern data stack: ETL, warehouse, data modelling, BI, reverse ETL, reporting & analysis.

We don't have budgets this year or next to hire data or BI analysts so just wondering how many other folks here just get rammed with ad-hoc requests? Many of us just want to focus on data modelling and not having to deal with stakeholders. We've had to constantly push our infrastructure and modelling projects month after month because there's a constant influx of request from stakeholders.

Is this a problem for you guys? What are you doing to address it?