Things were even worse before agile, or at least as bad. The alternative you describe doesn't exist at scale, nor can it, because the same corporate culture tha

Things were even worse before agile, or at least as bad. The alternative you describe doesn't exist at scale, nor can it, because the same corporate culture that made agile suck and waterfall suck will make every other process approach suck in much the same way. The most that is possible are sporadic individual exceptions.