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I was not referring to "motivated individuals". I was referring to developers with actual technical skills and actual experience with the tools used by the development team. What I often see is management being told we can hire the cheapest developers with zero experience and throw in scrum/agile... and we will achieve the same outcomes. The result is a mountain of tech debt and pagers going off at all hours at the day.

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Well, scrum literally says that the team should have skills needed to get the job done, so you can still defend scrum, whereas agile says about putting people's interactions over processes and about pursuing technical excellence, so creating tech debt is still not agile. So, I'm not sure if we can agree on that, but, arguably, I believe it is not scrum or agile that are failing, but management who doesn't want to be agile or/and follow scrum. This is my experience numerous talk I had on escalated level when my team was rising issues with management.

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