I agree, and would add that agile is bad because it's used to iterate along the product vertical, so first create an MVP, then add features. Instead it could be used to iterate from a technical standpoint, first adding the helper functions, then the interfaces, then some of the core functionality.. but the problem there is that most orgs prefer immediate "business value" at the cost of long term good engineering. In some cases, when the application is meant to be short-lived this makes sense, but more often than not I've seen teams suffer from this approach, not realizing they have been digging their own hole for years.