Unnecessary overhead and micromanagement. You don't need "sprints" for any of that.

They're the open office plan of project management. Tech workers have open offices, other professionals don't. I think we're just treated more poorly in some regards. Sprints tend to create lots of of tech debt and they're used for micromanagement. You want to work in 3-6 month projects, not 2 week arbitrary deadlines.

Not sure your average PhD at Microsoft Research or Jane Street would put up with them. Linux Kernel developers don't use them. Mathematicians don't story point conjectures.

But creating CRUD apps for a non-tech enterprise, you might have lots of "sprints" but no software is delivered reliably or high in quality.