Yes, there is an entire narrative that first there was chaos, then there was waterfall, and then there was agile.

For example, https://www.infoworld.com/article/2334751/a-brief-history-of...

It's as if people believed that all the microcomputing software of the 1970s and 1980s, from VisiCalc to Zork to the Macintosh, was done by waterfall design.