Being Agile has become a fad off late. This has led to team adopting agile blindly doing things without understanding the reason or need behind it. This could lead to frustration mentioned by you involving a lot of long ass meetings standing.

I believe as mentioned in the article that Agile is a set of best practices followed by a ever adaptive team. I completely agree there is in no ONE TRUE WAY.

We implemented it because one of the teams we work with implemented it. The big difference no one cared to notice was that they work in terms of iterative builds of a huge application that they determine the timescales of, and we work on learning products that have prescribed deadlines, sometimes down to "this needs to be done this afternoon for tomorrow morning".

We were still forced to estimate the effort of something that we knew had to be done the same day, and it was to be done by the person who had free time, no the person who it would be the least effort for.

No surprise it was a completely hollow experience.

True, It can disorganize the team and make it counterproductive if it isn't in the 'agile' mindset (or hasn't adapted to it in a reasonable period of time).

I believe its about attitude. One need consider him/herself to be below average to be attentive to what others say and not consider others stupid. Considering myself below average has not really worked for me, this has actually hit my confidence and made me apprehensive about sharing my views