Well I think that comes from top-down micro-managing organizations that just want to call themselves "scrum". They want to do what they want to do and will dress it up in whatever language is buzzword compliant.
A director of engineering flat-out told me that being self-organising wasn't part of our scrum because we couldn't guarantee that each team made the same decisions and we needed developers to be interchangeable between teams.
Person 1: Scrum sucks at my job because X, Y, Z.
Person 2: That's not the ideal spherical cow! Sorry, it's not "real scrum".