This is so true. I've been on teams that did 100x work with like 3 engineers. I've also been on teams that do near 0x work with over 10. What I can confidently

This is so true. I've been on teams that did 100x work with like 3 engineers. I've also been on teams that do near 0x work with over 10. What I can confidently state is that you must work the people and then the process to improve anything. We need to stop adopting things just because other teams use them or because they are an "industry norm". If we just truly kept true to the original agile manifesto, there would be amazing results everywhere. Sadly most EMs have the training of a scrum master and never want to work to actually improve their process/discipline. The solution of getting rid of everything is a sound one because at least you can focus on the core agile ideas that make shipping software successful.