The daily stand up concept was popularized by Scrum which is pretty opposed to micro management and treating people like children. Maybe it gets used that way in some companies practicing cargo cult agile but it's not the purpose.
I've been the person not liking the accountability in the past as I've struggled with very 'bursty' productivity and so the original article resonated with me. I've also come to appreciate the accountability as the parent commenter has.
SCRUM is micro-management and treating people like children. That's the core of scrum.
The reality of scrum is so far divorced from its claims it's a joke. Scrum is anti-agile, the antithesis of every agile principle. It's managers micro-managing their staff.
Fundamentally it's process and tools over individuals and interactions.
Scrum doesn't even have managers and doesn't specify any particular tools so I'm not sure what you're basing these claims on. By "the reality of scrum" do you mean that the way it's actually practiced in some teams is "far divorced from its claims" (probably often true) or do you mean that the framework of scrum is inherently flawed even if practiced as designed? You haven't made a case for that.
