Sorry for not having made this clearer, I assumed it was obvious that I was sharing my own experiences, which is why I didn't prepend "..for me" or "..in my experience" anywhere. Reading through my post I do think it's sufficiently obvious, as I am specifically mentioning how I remember certain projects.

Looking through your counterpoints I think I need to emphasise my opening sentence a bit more strongly: It was fantastic _when it was introduced bottom-up_. This is important, because the ceremonies were all engineering-driven and managers usually not present. So there was no rushing and "whipping" during the retros, there was no scrum master being the manager and everyone wanted to be done with the daily quickly, and so on.

> Really. But you should be more objective and remind yourself that you are very likely privileged. Most of us are not.

I have suffered all the bad parts of Agile much like everybody else, and a lot of what you say sounds painfully familiar. This doesn't invalidate my main point though.

> [...] over my 23 years long career.

Just as an aside, the first Scrum guide came out in 2010, and this is what in my memory created the widespread usage of Agile in general and this flavour of Agile specifically. This matches my memory that the best experiences I have made with Scrum all happened between ~2011 and ~2014.