Ours used to be similar, then we were assigned a scrum master to act as a mentor (despite most of us working together for more than a decade, we are fairly new to agile). He made stand ups much more regimented. All the chit chat is completely gone. I’m now realizing that standup was the only time of the day that my coworkers and I connected about anything not strictly work related. It does feel like we have lost out on something.