Next day: well, I drank too much coffee, and I'm burned out on socializing from brainstorming all day. I still don't know how so-and-so particle gets the energy to reach the next quantum state, and honestly I just want my coworkers to shut the fuck up for a few days so I can focus.

Boss: Mr. Feynman, can I see you in my office?

I agree with what you've written, but this isn't an argument for stand-ups.

What you're advocating for is regular communication, and people being involved in each other's work. Stand-ups c_an_ help with this, but they aren't the only solution, and in my view, are one of the less effective solutions.

Open, unstructured conversion has always been a better way to solve problems and move things forwards in my experience, and stand-ups entirely kill that by having an orthogonal purpose in the eyes of the manager (unless they're in the trenches doing the same work everyone else is, which is rarely the case).

Let your developers have their own standups however they want to do them. Make sure they do meet and discuss, but stay out of it if you're not right there with them helping to solve the problems.

I chat with people all the time when I'm looking for a creative break out. The idea that it is just going to happen at 10:30am on a daily schedule is baffling to me.

I mean, if your team is entirely dysfunctional I can see how doing this can kick start thinking about how to solve development better. Better than nothing. But this entire thread is basically "you are doing it wrong, this is the correct process". There ain't no process (mostly).

Perhaps its a way to make terrible, unmotivated developers more productive. I dunno. I've been working from home since March, and haven't missed stand up at all. Everything gets done. Conversations that have to happen still happen. Because we take our job seriously and know enough to reach out when we need to (love my current team, small as it is).