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> Most scrum shops would not permit this level of backstory anymore … not much supervision

If someone needs close supervision to ensure they don’t get stuck like this and spiral, they probably aren’t ready to be a senior engineer.

The agile sweatshops will give you as much supervision as they can regardless of whether you need it or not.

I suspect a lot of management have been sold on scrum because they see it as a way to micromanage employees rather than manage change.

If you take Scrum, and...

* remove the retrospective

* remove the planning poker

* extend the "stand-up" meetings to take an hour (with no standing, of course)

* and instead of developers synchronizing with each other you make it about developers reporting their daily progress to the manager

* redefine the role of "scrum master" from someone who takes care about the Scrum rituals, to the traditional manager

* remove the product owner and demo

* and a few more changes like this

...you have turned Scrum into something that the managers really like!