Agile/Scrum was the biggest bait-and-switch con out there - developers thinking the methodologies would empower them while in fact being a vector for the worst

Agile/Scrum was the biggest bait-and-switch con out there - developers thinking the methodologies would empower them while in fact being a vector for the worst excesses of micromanagement. I feel less empowered now than I did in my earliest days as a junior dev.