Personally, I've experienced scrum only as a tool used by middle managers to control developers. It sounds good in theory, but power structures are a thing, and

Personally, I've experienced scrum only as a tool used by middle managers to control developers. It sounds good in theory, but power structures are a thing, and it gives too much influence in the way of metrics to malicious managing types who want to be in control. Scrum and agile are now red flags for me.