Yep. I'm sure its fine in small competent teams with a workflow that they're comfortable with.

But any large organisation I've worked in involves clueless middle managers and teams with some people who really should move on. Agile seems to make incompetence of managers less obvious, and makes them less accountable. Seems to remove control over both the workflow, cost base and the quality of product/service.

It also gives them this great universal technique for problem solving. "We found that Task X is not being done right" . OK we'll write a job title "X doer". Appoint person who doesn't really know what X is, but neither does the interviewer. Make this person go to 'stand ups' and assign them some jiras. 3 months later, they wonder why X is still not being done and why their new hire left already.

The root cause for sure is incompetent management not the methods. But their project method seems to protect them and impair actual improvement.