Software and Other Shenanigans

I’ve been working in an agile environment for most of my career (other than a little stretch as a government contractor). Pretty much all of those were versions of Scrum. Scrum also happens to be the butt of nearly every joke I’ve ever seen about the software development lifecycle, and the subject of the periodic articles and videos about why Scrum failed. On the 1 hand, it’s a shot at what I do, specifically how I do it; but on the other hand, all the crap-talking has a good point. So why is having a problem with Scrum so ubiquitous, and is it really justified?