The original reaction for that pathology is "The Mythical Man-Month", it's what started everything. From my point of view, we're still man-monthin'.
The Agile folks just translated a personal reflection from Fred Brooks into a culture (then some companies made it into a cult).
Anyway. In your opinion, what the pathologies for _this_ time would be?
In software, Gerald Weinberg was writing about how to organize and optimize this stuff at least a decade before Brooks.
And Edwards Deming's work led to a lot of agile ideas. That strain of thinking is traceable at least back to the Napoleonic-era's Prussian artillery. The mythical man month isn't really a software problem; it's a human organization problem.
> Anyway. In your opinion, what the pathologies for _this_ time would be?
That's certainly an interesting question; I don't have a ready answer.