Shitty standups are first the fault of the leader, and second the participants. If everyone limps into the meeting and 'phones it in' by repeating common responses "uhh, work orders, reviewing PR's", then of course you'll get a weak result.
Addressing standups as the sole issue completely ignores the holistic factors that influence the outcome. If a team is bored, undercompensated, overworked, undersupervised, then they're going to deliver shitty standups, and those standups will be a waste of time. When the participants are eager to provide a handoff of knowledge and prompt eachother for interchange, then you get the good standups that leave people racing back to their desks to build off of that synergy.
Addressing standups as the sole issue completely ignores the holistic factors that influence the outcome. If a team is bored, undercompensated, overworked, undersupervised, then they're going to deliver shitty standups, and those standups will be a waste of time. When the participants are eager to provide a handoff of knowledge and prompt eachother for interchange, then you get the good standups that leave people racing back to their desks to build off of that synergy.