Returning to the roots of agile

Good stuff. I really like the point about "doing" agile, vs "being" agile. Too many companies "do" the ceremonies and use the tools, and think they are agile, but they're just "doing" and not "being". Generally because of a combination of:

A. people not really understanding the underpinnings of the agile movement (ie, the thoughts expressed in the Agile Manifesto) and/or

B. (the correct) people not caring about, or not accepting, the need for real change in the organization in order to be agile.

The unfortunately fall out of all of this is that you are starting to see developers express a great degree of cynicism and even hostility towards the idea of "Agile", which could lead a lot of "throwing the baby out with the bathwater".