[psunavy03]

Half of the problem with implementing Agile is people like this who insist that shittily-implemented Agile is actually Agile implemented accurately, and then railing against the ensuing straw man.

I can't think of anything in the Scrum Guide that describes "insisting on doing everything through 'channels'" outside describing the roles and the division of labor between them. I mean, maybe in a really badly-run SAFe shop, this happens.