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by noitpmeder 978 days ago
> And that's ignoring all the retros that result in nothing, and grooming the backlog that we'll never clear and Christ, just stop.

This is the issue right here. If you're doing these tasks with no quantifiable benefit (useful retro outcomes, better understood backlog, ...) then sure, there is no use in continuing them. However, just because some teams fail at these tasks doesn't mean the tasks themselves are useless.