In my opinion standups are waste of time when they are mandated by some boss. When they are used as head count moment to see everyone is in the office working on things. Then it turns into status report for that manager and maybe he starts even micro managing people by handing them tasks and asking questions to each person.

If standup is needed by the team and it feels natural then it probably is useful. Nowadays with remote work I kind of like to have at least 10 mins to see people that I am working with each day.