My experience with agile: At my last company I had one of the warehouse programmers/data scientists come up to me and say basically this:
"At my daily scrum stand-up which is pretty much done via videoconference and no one stands up, we identified a blocker on a 5 pointer, meaning that unless we get the product owner to escalate the resolution our velocity is going to nosedive. So our scrum-master took the issue to the scrum of scurm meeting to see if others had a similar blocker, but it turns out that the issue is that the DB2 license is per server and the SQL license is enterprise, so the product owner that has in 3 consecutive years shot down an upgrade to the DB2 server, is now asking that we just bring in some of the other backlog items to keep the velocity up, btw, her bonus depends on our velocity, while she evaluates the CBA for a server/license upgrade, but the backlog only has like 2 tasks that have been pointed since the business hasn't prioritized the backlog. After we figure this out, I have to explain to the CFO why the AWS bill is so high this month after the marketing department spun up a massive SQL warehouse and essentially duplicated our onsite warehouse so they could learn how to benefit from some real machine learning, even though no one there even knows the difference between a continuous and a categorical variable. I hate my job."
Also, I'm a little surprised that no reckoning has happened with this couple, but if the family doesn't care about being repaid...so be it.