> Things like deadlines, status reports, daily standups, open offices, tickets, and retrospectives are designed around the assumption of a reluctant workforce who have to be clubbed into line.

Certainly true in some cases but needing data from the areas and people you manage is an essential need of all management, no matter its style. Tickets, stand ups, daily reports, they’re all ways to make the employee or their work _legible_ from the outside. How that legibility is used is another matter.