Scrum is alright but shouldn't be taken to the extreme. We went from Waterfall Model, planning absolutely everything up-front, to the opposite extreme of planning nothing up-front. Somehow people think that's totally normal and still think process is everything.

I've been around the tech industry long enough to see companies dogmatically pursuing certain ideas only to switch to the opposite ideas later... And, at all times, everyone is 100% sure that this way is the only way it should be done. Nobody ever gets any credit for saying "Hang on, maybe we should find a middle ground."

The root problem is that most humans are a mix of crazy and stupid. We go from one crazy extreme to the opposite crazy extreme.