I hear you. I often feel the same way. Most of what coalesced into agile in the late 90s was already "in the air", just taken further and tied together. For e

I hear you. I often feel the same way. Most of what coalesced into agile in the late 90s was already "in the air", just taken further and tied together. For example, it's normal now to have CI/CD. In 1996, McConnell listed "daily build and smoke" as a best practice, describing it as the "heartbeat" of a project. Without it, you're dead. It didn't have a sexy name it was slow and fragile, but the concept was there. Or, variously, sprints or iterations. Various spiral models existed before Scrum and XP became the talk of the town; just nobody tried it. This was a good discussion. I continue to disagree with you about the parallels you drew and what I see as a line of argument that adoption of a practice is commensurate solely with its value and effectiveness. However I now appreciate why you were forceful. I fit a pattern you recognise.