So very much this. We’re now at a point where the widespread and rampant destruction that’s been wrought in the name of agile is so bad that it’s not reasonabl

So very much this. We’re now at a point where the widespread and rampant destruction that’s been wrought in the name of agile is so bad that it’s not reasonable to say “oh you’re not doing it properly”. That excuse could be used to avoid responsibility for literally anything. Hype bros use that to defend token scams (“you just don’t get it”). There’s an increasing mountain of evidence that shows agile just doesn’t work, makes things actively worse by forcing the creation and then concealment by neglect of engineering problems, and (as discussed above) actively reduces documentation so that agile cheerleaders can pin their incompetence on the engineers that inherit their mess when they cruise on up the ladder oblivious of their failures. All of this and not a shred of empirical evidence, ever, that it actually achieves anything other than obscuring management stupidity.