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On a perfect team, where everyone is great at time management, honest about productivity, has superb communication skills, and is enthusiastic/loves their tasks, yes, scrum is dumb. For but for the rest of us, the scrum master handles all the unpleasant organizational crap for the team, and thank god for them.

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You can be quite far from perfect and not need it. And they quite commonly can amplify the disfunction in a team with issues.

This is made worse at a lot of companies by hiring the absolutely cheapest person for the role.

Maybe not _need_ it, but it can help in a lot of cases. Though I have seen some cases of active resistance coming from participants, in which case toxic co-workers can really make the experience miserable.

This comes down to companies failing to fire people.

If someone is toxic to a team, they shouldn't remain at that company (much less on that team).

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