Scrum/Agile as it's practiced was invented in large part at consulting companies who were dealing with toxic clients. If you need a methodology to defensively

Scrum/Agile as it's practiced was invented in large part at consulting companies who were dealing with toxic clients. If you need a methodology to defensively manage a bad client then it's a pretty good cool. As for the other parts there's a general problem of people applying a tool they don't understand. The benefit of a daily scrum meeting is not to remove blockers. If you think that's the point of the meeting then you've failed already. It's to build team camaraderie through repeated casual interactions. If you think it's there to remove blockers than you're tempted to try to eliminate those casual interactions instead of facilitate them and you end up doing the opposite - you erode team culture.