I recognise that different folks have had very different experiences of agile, lean, kanban and so on. Many of those experiences have sucked. I've had a few bad agile exeriences, usually "it means we never write docs" layered over an existing hack-and-patch culture.

But this is just straw-punching clickbait. And it had the intended effect: I'm annoyed.

> If things like Kanban and Agile actually worked

I have personal experience of them actually working. Multi mega SLOC distributed systems with dozens of teams working for several companies on multiple continents.

So as you might imagine, I somewhat resent being painted as an accomplice to hucksters.