I don't understand this recent pushback against agile development.
Do you really want to go back to the waterfall and V model style of development? Those are basically guaranteed failures in a fast moving industry like software development. If anything your comparison should be applied to the waterfall/V model because it is essentially central planning.
If you are doing things like building MVPs, iterated/incremental development with frequent changes and deployments to production then you are doing agile development.
Maybe it is not hyper formalized like Scrum but it is agile nevertheless.
Do you really want to go back to the waterfall and V model style of development? Those are basically guaranteed failures in a fast moving industry like software development. If anything your comparison should be applied to the waterfall/V model because it is essentially central planning.
If you are doing things like building MVPs, iterated/incremental development with frequent changes and deployments to production then you are doing agile development.
Maybe it is not hyper formalized like Scrum but it is agile nevertheless.