How does he simultaneously believe "only the top 1% do Agile well" and "Software development practices have steadily improved year by year without government he

How does he simultaneously believe "only the top 1% do Agile well" and "Software development practices have steadily improved year by year without government help."? A lot of the industry is self-regulating. Self-regulation is more vulnerable to corruption than government regulation. Most startup self-regulation is essentially "does it work? did you get paid/acquired?". If so, you did the software right.