> Whatever Agile was, it's absolute garbage these days. It largely exists to hold developers maximally accountable to the business, at the expense of technical

> Whatever Agile was, it's absolute garbage these days. It largely exists to hold developers maximally accountable to the business, at the expense of technical excellence or even maintenance, Author here, this was one of the motivations for writing this and the other article linked at the start. I've seen agile actively harming maintenance and quality more times than I've seen it ever help maintenance or quality. You know things are fucked up when you need to put technical debt, refactors, library updates, etc down as "stories" (erm hello, where is the customer story in "fix that giant performance TODO") instead of just doing them. Sure, we can just carry them out to avoid the wrath of the scrum master and co, but then you have to balance time between doing the stories, and fixing bugs.