Perhaps the problem is that there are few self-organizing teams in companies. Managers needs to justify their salaries.

may I refer you to Karl Marx? Communism is perfect, it's just been implemented wrong.

I’m not sure if you meant this to be sarcastic but I think you’re on to something. In both cases: a rebellion against a soul crushing authoritarian system by writing a manifesto describing a decentralized utopia… which then gets implemented in an authoritarian context and undermined along the way until all that remains is the name and some window dressing from the manifesto. Orwell’s Animal Farm still resonates because of this.

If somebody says “be agile; do A, B, and C for better software engineering”, and you do not A, not B, and not C then complain about how terrible agile is, the problem is not with agile. You did something different to agile and got different results, so why are you blaming agile for your own failure?

It is, in fact, possible to implement agile wrong – by doing the exact opposite of agile. This is not a rhetorical trick you are catching people out on.

If somebody says “be communist; do A, B, and C for better society”, and you do not A, not B, and not C then complain about how terrible communism is, the problem is not with communism. You did something different to communism and got different results, so why are you blaming communism for your own failure? It is, in fact, possible to implement communism wrong – by doing the exact opposite of communism. This is not a rhetorical trick you are catching people out on