Agreed. In the current form, Agile is management's answer to "I have no idea what we're doing but I need to be seen doing something".
At my workplace they even invented a thing called "Agile Transformation Journey" and hired a bunch of scrum masters who call themselves "Agilists", because the whole org is falling apart on technical debt and clueless managers standing around pointing fingers. A few years into this "journey" and everything is exactly the same. Everyone knows this. The devs know this, the agilists know this, the managers know this but we all pretend to get along because it's an echo chamber. It's almost too fun too watch.
At my workplace they even invented a thing called "Agile Transformation Journey" and hired a bunch of scrum masters who call themselves "Agilists", because the whole org is falling apart on technical debt and clueless managers standing around pointing fingers. A few years into this "journey" and everything is exactly the same. Everyone knows this. The devs know this, the agilists know this, the managers know this but we all pretend to get along because it's an echo chamber. It's almost too fun too watch.
You-Can't-Fix-A-Broken-Culture-With-Agile.