The fact that management loves the term "sprint" tells you something about the motivations of management-induced agile: artificial urgency.
Yes, they're called management, and all A/agile is an excuse for them to engage in micromanagement under a different name. "We're not _micromanaging_, we're iterating!"
But more, I feel like the majority of expressions of power in my life, across domains, have been manifested themselves as "work on your self", for which we are all infinitely guilty of, even though the various articles of work are not your own and never belonged to you.
I once knew someone who would manipulate people by first getting them to avow to some value/principle statement, however general, then claiming that what they wanted you to do to be a tool to fulfilling that value statement that you just avowed to, no matter how indirect the actual relationship between those things, such that you were contradicting your own avowed values if you failed to comply. Gaslighting in the first degree, but I see some variant of this tactic in other domains, wherein the source of power assertion is, in the first step made anonymous ("I'm just asking questions"), then, in the second step, made out to be your own guiltiness ("you're shutting out intellectual skepticism and debate!")
It's such a clownshow.
Do people really think that "agile" somehow magically enables employees to work at an accelerated pace for two or three weeks without exhaustion, downtime, or any negative side effects, and then turn around and do it again, indefinitely?