Current HN title is both not the source title and a misrepresentation of the point of the article. Both the title and body criticize “acephalic Agile”, which the author defines as the use of Agile tools without Agile governance. This is not arguing that “Agile is worse than Waterfall”, but at most “a particular mode of quasi-Agile is worse than Waterfall”.

(Given that the Agile Manifesto doesn't say anything directly about tools but entirely lays out a philosophy addressing governance, I'd actually argue that “Agile” tools without Agile governance aren't anything like Agile, and aren't even really Agile tools; Agile tools are tools chosen for a particular tasks through Agile governance, at a level higher than the governance level this price addresses, and applied within an Agile governance process at the level this piece addresses, which is not to endorse the particular governance approaches in this article or it'd horrendous strawmanning of Waterfall, which inasmuch as it is a real model, is an iterative model of exactly the type this piece is advocating.)