I do not see your article, Karim, as something very opinionated. And definitely, there are no dragons. I only see you have never attended any Scrum training, nor read the book about Scrum, and have had bad luck in selecting a company where somebody understands it. You are not alone, do not worry. If something surprises me, it is that Medium somehow selected this article for their weekly email selection.

I will not argue with everything. Just a couple of observations:

- Agile vs Scrum: have you ever heard about agile techniques that do not originate in the Agile Manifesto? (https://bit.ly/3iQbyIn)

- Scrum Master: if you see the SM as a secretary, most probably you will hire one uneducated secretary. SM is a sort of middle manager, who is supposed to have extensive knowledge because he is helping organizations and teams to find optimal performance. At the team level, among other things, he helps the team focus on flow (production flow aka TPS, and psychological flow aka Mihaly Czikszentmihaly), SM = Agile Coach, today, there is no difference.

- Daily standup: in normally operating collaborative teams, 7. min for daily is more than enough. I think in your case you do not have collaborating team. Or the team at all.

- The imaginary speed in Agile (or Scrum) is achieved through better thinking about what should be done and how. It is not about maximizing the throughput of tasks of each person. So the team can't fail due to lack of resources, because it plans accordingly. Organization can.

There is much more to correct. May I invite you to my course The Non-CertifiedTM Scrum Master? I explain there most of the things. I can do it as 1:1 version for you (https://bit.ly/3UDuN56)