> Whoever you hired may have called that scrum, but it seems they were bringing in unrelated processes.

Every time a Scrum project goes badly, any criticism attributed to Scrum is deflected with this no true scottsman argument.

News flash: nobody is doing the actual, literal version of Scrum as defined in the Scrum Guide. Nobody. So if you use this argument to deflect criticisms of Scrum, be consistent & don't attribute any success stories to Scrum either.