Is there a problem in what we might call a meta-framework like agile in that it requires the "good people" that Martin Fowler talks about when the reality is th

Is there a problem in what we might call a meta-framework like agile in that it requires the "good people" that Martin Fowler talks about when the reality is that most of our teams are at least partially average? People have to learn examples of its implementation but are either not knowledgable enough or trusted enough to start doing things their own way, which causes the rigidity that everyone is talking about. That and the fact that tooling is not something that most people can knock up in a few days so we relay on the software and its somewhat rigid processes which means we aren't free to innovate fully anyway. It's a bit like complaining that most musicians only do music the way they learned at college and do not adapt to the "principles of music".