Daily stand-ups were supposed to buy us alignment. What they have actually bought is fifteen minutes that everyone dreads and nobody remembers the content of by lunchtime. If a meeting's main output is a habit of attending it, that is not alignment, that is theatre.

The honest case for meeting daily is that async updates get ignored. People do not read a channel unless something is on fire, so a synchronous ping is the only reliable way to surface a blocker before it costs a day. That is a real problem, and it deserves a real answer, not a recurring calendar invite that nobody questions.

A smaller cadence would probably do more with less: two short syncs a week, plus a written update the other days, read by whoever is actually blocked on you. The failure mode to watch for is that the written update becomes another ritual nobody reads, in which case we have traded one theatre for another and changed nothing.

Before deciding, it is worth asking what the stand-up is actually for on this team right now: catching blockers, building context across time zones, or just a habit inherited from a previous job. The answer probably points straight at the fix.