I think you're redefining what a useful standup is, a little bit. I agree with you though, I'd just phrase it as "standups are pretty useless" and "it's good to

I think you're redefining what a useful standup is, a little bit. I agree with you though, I'd just phrase it as "standups are pretty useless" and "it's good to have people share context what they're doing". So maybe that's part of the problem, standup means whatever it happens to mean. You could replace the entire title of this post with "context should be shared async".