BTW, if you’re hearing that people are worried that you’re too senior, are a paper-pusher, etc., it sounds like you’re getting intws. If so, then it’s probably not the case that they think you’re too senior — if that were so, you’d not get intws at all.
There’s probably a gap in how you’re framing your work or abilities and they tell you you’re “too senior,” because it’s the most convenient thing to say. Otherwise, maybe they think your descriptions of work sound dated, removed from what top-performing ICs are doing or how they’re doing it.