The standup and the sprint goal only make sense if the team is working towards a common objective, like 'this week we make the auth system of this new api'. Tha

The standup and the sprint goal only make sense if the team is working towards a common objective, like 'this week we make the auth system of this new api'. That means everybody working together. If the sprint is a bunch of unrelated tickets from the backlog that each dev does on its own, then it is indeed unnecessary, and in theory you would be better with a simple Kanban.