The biggest problem the anti-Agile crowd has is that:

1. They have no replacement methodology.

2. Even if they did, it has no name.

I get that lots of people dislike Agile and what it has come to mean in certain quarters. But I have yet to see a cogent, actionable response. Criticism is well and good, but changing a bad situation requires a better idea.

But "leave me, the beleaguered, over-meetinged, over-instrumented developer, the hell alone" is not a methodology, and it's not something any sane business is going to sign up for.

Many of the comments here against Agile really attack process itself. Not particular processes, but the notion that there is a process that is followed, the same way every time. And extra scorn is heaped on process attached to metrics.