I very much prefer agile when I don't also have to waste my time in 5 hours of meetings a day while these same people expect me to be coding for 8 hours a day. I hate that so much. The director complained that I was putting so many hours into the meetings timebucket and I told him to look at my calendar of things I am being forced into.
Its finally decreasing because the director needs me to teach the rest of the team how to use database tools and design patterns more advanced than 1995. Not a single person on this team other than me, somehow, has ever touched object oriented programming. They are all COBOl, SQL, Mainframe, and system experts though and the organization is aggressively pursuing data modernization. But they cannot fire these people due to their expertise in the ancient architecture that runs the industry, while also needing them to get out of old habits.
It's kind of an interesting problem. We are making good progress though.