I can't even imagine how Scrum could ever align with the Agile values for it to be abused and transformed. IMO, that part is impossible, and Scrum was always a "bad-management by the numbers" framework.

Anyway, I've hear phrases like your example since some time around 2001. Agile was practically born with a parasitic consulting market intent on having the one true way to do it, and that way being what middle-managers adept of micro-managing want it to be. In fact, I think those consultants were the ones that pushed the word around, without them we wouldn't even have heard of the manifesto.

That's to say that, yeah, I do agree with your comment, but the actual problem is deeper, and harder to fix. Scrum and bad processes are just symptoms here.