I completely agree with the author, it’s the environment. Scrum was intended to empower developers by allowing them control over when new work got scheduled.

I completely agree with the author, it’s the environment. Scrum was intended to empower developers by allowing them control over when new work got scheduled. In reality it has been used by management to export their responsibilities onto developers while not ceding control. With scrum, planning and estimation are now done by developers. But management still reserves the right to reschedule mid-sprint for the all so urgent pop ups they need handled. The only thing developers can do to make scrum work is be completely devoted to the process and not the business, but that is a career limiting move; scrum masters are put in positions to either be ineffective or be ablative armor for their teams.