Scrum doesn't de-emphasize those things, bad programmers do. I'm just following your logic here, which I agree with up to the point where Scrum has a negative

Scrum doesn't de-emphasize those things, bad programmers do. I'm just following your logic here, which I agree with up to the point where Scrum has a negative influence. I don't see how Scrum can encourage good programmers to write bad code, since it gives them all the room they need to write good code, and lets them decide how much time and effort they put into architecture etcetera. Bad programmers however tend to get exposed by Scrum, since without anybody telling them they have to consider architecture, they will produce said giant snotball of hacks.