"Agile" (little agile) was certainly designed by developers for developers.

Your first sentence became correct after managers and MBAs co-opted the term and turned it into "AGILE" which has almost nothing to do with "agile".

Maybe we should call it !AGILE ;-)

It started out with good intentions -- it is hard to dispute that. However, it has turned into one thing -- a fraud factory. People preaching it can be waterfall without all the proper planning of it.

I feel confident I can wield Agile against bad management to protect developers with extremely high effectiveness, so in that sense I would disagree.

There were some very interesting things in the agile movement before it was snuffed by sales at consultancies.

This is Scrum, not agile.

I always thought it was for managers who have trust issues.