Your team needs coaching, then. Unless you're getting status from 30 people....which would be a whole other conversation.

"Scrum" is one of those terms like "jam band" or "martini" or "DevOps" that people apply way too liberally to describe things that they think are similar but are actually completely different. If you try and get people to do real Scrum ceremonies and roles as written you'll run into a host of excuses as to why they can't (or, as is more often the case, just don't want to). This is how you end up with a "daily stand-up" that only happens when Jupiter isn't in declination, is attended by between 0 and n + 3 people where n is the actual team size, and lasts up to an hour and a half with a strong possibility of not everybody giving their required status. Oh, and everybody is sitting down. At a stand-up.

Scrum might not be perfect for every situation but it's a damn sight better than a swirling miasma of agenda-less quasi-recurring meeting invites buttressed by orphaned Google Docs and Slack threads. I've worked on exactly one team where we pretty much did Scrum to the letter and it was great. Meetings were short and sweet and we always knew what we had to build or fix. I was just a kid and we were using a super-janky tech stack but it was among the most productive, low-stress times in my career.

We do something really similar to this and we're usually through 6 or 7 people in 15 minutes

Yeah, we do this basically automatically right now, so it is fast. There are really rare cases when we would need more than 15 minutes. We do more serious stuff asynchronous over Slack or in a smaller round after daily with only affected people.

that's insane. how many of you are there?