> Agile is assuredly garbage but having every development company use the exact same process and terminology is too valuable to give up.

But...Agile doesn't involve that. Even when the same words are used, they don't have the same meaning, often, and the substantive processes even within vaguely Scrum-ish methodologies vary widely.

What has been said so often on HN, AGILE started as a great tool that turned into a cult with no knowledge of why the things being used were being used. Its terminology and practices became mysticism and ritual, with common sense thrown to the wayside.

There are exceptions, but in far too many companies AGILE has become a religion that slows the workforce down with high priests who insist that their ritualistic practices be followed and their tithes be paid =[

This is actually a good point.

We should be fighting against the standardization of the industry because it allows more competition for wages.

On the other hand, damn near every company seems to only want to hire 'senior' developers who can deliver working software in spite of process, which I assume is somehow related to all the nonobvious process skills being commoditized.