Biggest distraction I see in companies that want to act like they have a mature software engineering culture but don't actually have one is to focus on the proc

Biggest distraction I see in companies that want to act like they have a mature software engineering culture but don't actually have one is to focus on the process. This can range from sticking with traditional waterfall to voodoo agile with "scrum" and daily standups that are really just status meetings for PMs. Often I see companies using Jira or whatever and PRs for being really particular about how work is logged and tracked. Moving stuff through the stages and merging PRs quickly becomes the goal, because to management it looks like stuff is getting done. Actually releasing working features to production is, at best, an afterthought. All that process and ceremony distracts programmers from doing the job of, you know, programming.