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> "Self-organizing" just means that scrum master or coach or whoever is creating set of rules that dictate pretty much every aspect of work.

See, this is already not "by the book" Scrum.

The team decides those things in a retrospective, and as long as they are releasing in a reasonable timely manner, it's alright.

If someone is being unreasonable and putting their foot down too much, then it's a management issue that doesn't have anything to do with Scrum. Either the person is a dictator, or they don't have authority and there's no management to put an end to it.

Scrum also doesn't work when the team is burning in a building on fire, but we don't blame Scrum for that.

I'm all for shitting on it, but those problems have been happening in companies for millenia. Scrum won't fix them, you gotta fix each separate problem by itself.