I grew up in the industry during the 90’s in the Bay Area. What we considered agile is nothing like agile of today. The process people wormed their way in and made it super dorky and prescriptive. As a leader now I only encourage agile in my most junior or dysfunctional team. In my high functioning teams I guide them towards the less prescriptive more “agile” method of my youth, which was very heavy in the emphasis of you almost certainly know what’s next so do it and call together a standup when you’re blocked. I’d note that more powerful than agile is the trend towards asynchronous work and planning. Keeping a chat as an asynchronous standup where you daily post your thoughts on work and respond to others is a huge boon and completely replaces “stand ups,” which only really work in fully collocated teams. Every company I’ve worked at had folks all over the world working together, and trying to do a traditional agile standup at a fixed time is brutal on at least someone.