I personally prefer async, though as people here have pointed out it dissolves the sense of team cohesion. Standups have taken a life of their own as each comp

I personally prefer async, though as people here have pointed out it dissolves the sense of team cohesion. Standups have taken a life of their own as each company adopted the agile paradigm. - Replaced weekly status reports - purely individual status oriented instead of taking the form of a team huddle to remove obstacles - Blockers are usually outside of the team doing the standup so it usually goes something like this “I have a blocker with certain microservice, I will/ have reached out to the other team and waiting to hear back”. This doesn’t solve any problem nor the team can do anything to unblock. So a rep from the team has to attend a meta standup to blurt out the blocker