No no no! Scrum doesn’t get to escape that easily! This is blatant retconning by the Scrum folks. Look at how the scrum guide has changed over the years and you

No no no! Scrum doesn’t get to escape that easily! This is blatant retconning by the Scrum folks. Look at how the scrum guide has changed over the years and you’ll see clear evidence of “fine, we’ll stop being so prescriptive”. And there’s such an essentially-first-party certificate culture associated with Scrum, a completely self-imposed one, that it’s the NORM for Scrum practitioners to be prescriptivist rule-followers lacking any sense of nuance.