You don’t have to use Rails, Boost, Spring, or Scrum-XP-Rational-Waterfall. Sometimes back to the basics of the tool is needed, but don’t throw out the baby with the bath water.
Let's throw the guide as well, cause it's the people reading the guide who made the ecosystem.
If one is faced with a guide that essentially tells them: communicate well, don't be a douche, improve constantly, and do hard and smart work, and they are shocked by the guide's revelations, maybe we went somewhere wrong along the way.
I strongly doubt it’s the people who read the guide. It’s the people who learn about it from word of mouth that produce Jira-driven behemoths. Really, try the guide. It’s minimal.
Keep the guide, ditch the ecosystem.
You don’t have to use Rails, Boost, Spring, or Scrum-XP-Rational-Waterfall. Sometimes back to the basics of the tool is needed, but don’t throw out the baby with the bath water.