The short answer
Finding problems nobody wants found is lonely, especially when you're young and don't yet have the rank to cushion the blow. But the isolation you feel isn't proof you're out of place. It's the natural result of doing honest work in a room where honesty is uncomfortable. That discomfort belongs to them, not you.
You're expected to catch what others miss — and when you do, the room goes quiet. Research on early-career first-generation professionals shows this pattern clearly: people who come in without an inherited professional identity often feel they have to earn their right to speak, while simultaneously being asked to speak up. That double bind is real, and it wears on you.
Marcus Aurelius wrote that every trade has one demand: focus on the work in front of you, and use the tool you have. Your tool right now is honest observation. The senior people in the room have their tools too — experience, rank, comfort. None of that makes their work beyond review. You were put in the room to use your eyes. Use them. The discomfort you cause is not damage you're doing. It is the work.
This week, find one person — a peer, a mentor outside your team, or someone who has been in your position before — and name what you're carrying. Not to complain, but to hear yourself say it out loud. Isolation shrinks when it gets a witness. You don't need the whole room to understand you. You need one person who does.