Yes, I agree with everything you've written. The problem is not processes like Scrum, it's the fact that many of the people who are in roles that are ostensibl

Yes, I agree with everything you've written. The problem is not processes like Scrum, it's the fact that many of the people who are in roles that are ostensibly responsible for "fret[ting] over higher order problems" actually don't care about that. They get paid regardless of how productive everyone else is, and in my experience they get paid more if they implement "best practices"... which are practices designed by marketing teams to sell CSM courses.