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I agree devs carry many dysfunctions.

But big-A Agile is a management school with its own dysfunctions. It diverges from small-a agile, which is basically a set of principles to help critique yourself with.

When you hire a manager (or "Scrum Master" whatever), they must convince top management to give them a job. Which is why Scrum Masters brag about their bosses "believing in" Agile, like a bishop happy that the king loves god. Then they impose some system which requires their highly visible involvement.

(That said, the Agile described in this article diverges from my personal experience.)