It took me a while to place my finger on why I never really loved everything about it, but I eventually decided that it felt like it was a façade to a managemen

It took me a while to place my finger on why I never really loved everything about it, but I eventually decided that it felt like it was a façade to a management power grab. Yup that's exactly it. Or to put it more delicately (than simply a "power grab"): a façade that servers various ulterior purposes -- from making their company seem hip and modern (to the uninformed) to simply being able to say "finally we have some structure!" even though it's very debatable whether new "structure" really brings the benefits that it claims to (and evidently brings many negatives on board with it). But ultimately - a façade.