The dedicated Scrum Masters I think already started to be diminishing, in my last two jobs usually one of the engineers (not too senior or junior but should be

The dedicated Scrum Masters I think already started to be diminishing, in my last two jobs usually one of the engineers (not too senior or junior but should be able to communicate well) is asked to take that role along with his usual 8 story point a week coding responsibility. But unfortunately in this case above scripted behaviour is being shown by middle management (Engineering manager with not much coding background ). This is because they are mostly under fire if there is a "Spill Over" . The engineer playing scrum master role can easily get away with it because the probably did their part in the coding front and just threaten to step down from the role. But managers don't add much to anything else in the delivery process, so they are forced to be accountable for everything. (C'mmon we all know appraisals are also pretty much scripted) .