To some degree, yes. I've worked in tons of multi-team environments. Being able to walk into a team room and ask simple questions like "How much work do you guy

To some degree, yes. I've worked in tons of multi-team environments. Being able to walk into a team room and ask simple questions like "How much work do you guys think you have?" or "About that feature. Have any idea when it might be done", or "Anything I can help you with?" is a reasonable thing to ask if you're burning the kind of money businesses burn. The counter to what you say is that none of this crap should take more than 10-15 minutes a day. I find that if I establish that upfront, SMs and managers don't end up creating Agile Death Marches. Instead they come back and ask how that can possibly work. Because Agile is meta, it really should disappear. Aside from setting up things and tweaking them, it shouldn't be a topic of discussion. If you're talking about it too much, you're probably doing it wrong. But you are correct. It is not like that in most places. Sadly.