Either the developers aren't as good as the other poster is saying or they're not being let off the leash. What I've seen happen is well-meaning people who don

Either the developers aren't as good as the other poster is saying or they're not being let off the leash. What I've seen happen is well-meaning people who don't understand software try to do the right thing as they've been taught, but that often means scrum. But then it turns into a very top-down approach and developers start getting treated like line-workers. At the company I'm at now, "product" has wedged themselves between the scrum teams and the business side and they basically won't allow the two to meet. They wield power over the technical side as a result. I actually was in a meeting with business once and they asked the question "who should be involved". I responded product and technical so we can advise. The product immediately responded "product" and the lack of technical in that response was deafening. So long story short is power politics or the developers aren't as good as being claimed (or a healthy mix of both). At the end of the day, these companies just have to not get it so wrong they go out of business. When the bar for that gets to a certain point, power politics takes over, and the ones who have business' ear are the ones who wield power.