In my opinion daily standups are pointless when there is no short term delivery goal. In my dream company standups, or better dev meetings, would peter out to about once a week and then ramp up as the team approaches a delivery.

I once calculated that daily standups, sprint planning, sprint retrospective, sprint demo, and for some sprint of sprints consume one full day of the week. Now unless the Agile ceremonies make the team at least 25% more productive, to make up for the full day "lost", in my opinion, it is counterproductive.

But none of those activities made our team more productive, effective or deliver faster or better. Our dev teams had a built a great product that customers loved and a customer service that customers frequently lauded us for. In fact, customer loved so much they moved some of their staff into our offices and asked if we had any other product/services to sell to them! (Go figure) We had achieved all this without doing the Agile thing. We simply met and talked though issues. Senior engineers were given the freedom to innovate on the modules that they delivered. It was great, and it worked.