I think one piece of the Agile origin story that’s missing is that it was heavily influenced by software contractors - people who worked on software that had a

I think one piece of the Agile origin story that’s missing is that it was heavily influenced by software contractors - people who worked on software that had a definitive “end”: either because it was feature-complete, it was time sensitive, or the client had a fixed budget. Many of Agile’s problems arise when you begin to apply them to long-running products that undergo continuous cycles of improvements - stretching years rather than months.