As you point out, the issue is forcing people to some artificial collaboration. People don't dislike collaboration. They dislike the lack of autonomy. In my exp

As you point out, the issue is forcing people to some artificial collaboration. People don't dislike collaboration. They dislike the lack of autonomy. In my experience, Scrum teams have some of the worse collaboration. People are focused on their assigned task and don't have time to speak to others. The issue here is not that a task is assigned to one person. The issue is that building software around the concept of fragmented tasks is an horrible way of managing work. The author of this blog mention reading "The goal", which is a Taylorism/lean bible. That's the issue.