“Good standup” also surfaces what people are working on because it might be important for the rest of the team to know for innumerable good reasons. It can serve as an opportunity for many-birds-one-stone, or even as an opportunity to interrupt work that doesn’t need to be done because it’s redundant to other efforts or because other efforts made it moot.

But yeah, you won’t get that from standups where people aren’t invested in what others say they’re working on. That’s just people blabbing for a (hopefully short) ritual time.

But why am I waiting for a standup to raise issues/blockers.

Nearly every company has a team chat now. And even before team chats became popular email lists existed.

And if you’re co-located then you just ask your neighbors.

I never have any issues to raise in standup because I’ve already raised/resolved them.