The OP probably doesn't understand agile, yet they will tell us their seemingly quite uninformed opinion based on limited non-agile experience.
Standups are incredibly useful if one wants to have a team self organize to deliver something. If they have a bunch of singleton actors working in silos, and they are OK with this, then they don't need standups. Standups degenerate into status reports and are useless, which is likely what the OP thinks they are meant to be. They are also evidently not doing agile.
On the other hand, my teams do agile, I need to break silos to let teams self-organize, and standups are necessary to let teammates know how and when to help each other, especially in remote teams.