The worst and most common argument I’ve heard for the daily standup is that it somehow facilitates team bonding and and passive, “osmosis-like” transfer of know

The worst and most common argument I’ve heard for the daily standup is that it somehow facilitates team bonding and and passive, “osmosis-like” transfer of knowledge. Like... why would you ever do x with the vague intention of getting y as a side benefit? Why don’t you just do y directly? I frankly don’t care what my teammates are up to. I don’t care what the team is up to. It’s not my job to care. It’s my job to send commits and get paid. If I need to collaborate with a teammate why wouldn’t I just reach out directly? If I need “context” about something, whether it’s company goals or how some piece in the code works, why don’t I just have a meeting specifically about that? If we want team bonding why don’t we have the team bond over actually working together in real ways? I hate this culture of by default having all these regular meetings for no explicit reason.