It does help. It sounds like there are a lot of areas where agile can be modified to fit the work being done.

Unfortunately I can implement absolutely zero of your ideas because every single one of them requires leadership to change how they perceive the way work is done. It is absolutely unacceptable for a developer to inconvenience leadership. An attempt to do that will be dismissed, coded as unprofessional, lead to dismissal.

It is clear to me where my problems lay.