Honestly I’m not sure management will ever acknowledge or admit they’ve totally distorted agile from what it was meant to be in the manifesto into Big Agile™ with its optional add-ons Scrum® and SAFe© especially with “Agile Delivery Consultants” and other nonsense titles. They’ve started replacing scrum masters with those now too.

At least until the next big thing comes along and they will declare agile to be just as bad as waterfall.

Scrum works fine if you implement it by the book and then start tailoring slowly it based on team retros. Problem arises when PM or other manager goes rogue and starts implementing own ideas to scrum or just presures more stuff to sprint.

That’s part of my point. How many companies do I need to work for such that that works, because every company that has used Agile or Scrum say that exact thing about tailoring it to the team from some base level.

It seems to me that if everyone does it wrong, then it is not a good fit for how people actually work.