Yep, I stopped developing professionally around 10 years ago. Even back then I heard rumbles of dissatisfaction with scrum, although it was a good experience f

Yep, I stopped developing professionally around 10 years ago. Even back then I heard rumbles of dissatisfaction with scrum, although it was a good experience for me in the places I worked. We embraced the agility, gave a lot of autonomy to the developers and had good product owners. We used scrum, also a bit of kanban and mashed them up in whatever way worked for us. The product owners shielded us from the business if they tried to interfere too much, and built trust with all the stakeholders that we were delivering. The sprint reviews were really popular events. Scrum can work well, as can many other things. It's not so much the methodology itself that causes problems. It's when everyone misses what the actual point of Agile really is.