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It's not just "some faggot": they all say it. I've yet to hear someone outright say "yes we are implementing Agile, no it isn't working for us, we were more efficient before we started doing this" even if all those things are objectively true.
And I'm not even convinced it "sounds good in theory", especially for small teams.
Hehe true.
It sounds "good in theory" the same way communism does - as long as the theory is presented as a vague idea and you don't go into literally any details and you don't think about it at all. Communism: We'll all be equal! Agile: We'll be more flexible! Going into any further detail reveals both to be horseshit, Communism is just feudalism, and Agile brings insane overhead and is more rigid than "muh waterfall" which is usually just a complete strawman when described by Agiletards, exactly like Capitalism when described by pinkos.
Really there are a disturbing number of parallels. It's not a coincidence that all the worst agile tards I've ever met were lefties. Both are unnatural systems that go directly against the natural way normal people work, and for that reason both require a high degree of highly authoritarian control to maintain the system, because without that control, people will just go back to doing what makes sense.
It's a left-wing mode of organization that (attempts to) do away with hierarchies, pre-defined areas of responsibility and expertise, and informal interpersonal relationships. So of course lefties are enamored with it.
I'll take Mythical Man Month over that any day of the week. That got us to the moon with 60s tech. Think Agile would get us there? Would you ride in that spaceship? I wouldn't.