Their "sound biting" of a complex issue resonates. It can be difficult to even explain what I'm doing to several people in the bandwidth of 2 minutes sometimes.
Most charitably, it's just a quick, lossy status report and forced request for help with blockers.
I feel like something is wrong if you feel like you need to cut corners to perform a "good-looking" report in standup. You shouldn't feel/cave to such a pressure.
I was referring to "advertisement" part not the "daily" part. Stand ups can be a way for people who know / want to game the system to prosper in the eyes of some idiot scrum master and managers, while our guy here gets smoked and made to look like he isn't productive.
You shouldn't cave, but if that's the culture around your in for an uphill battle.
Not defending scrum but sounds more like you've been abused by bad culture disguised as scrum.