If you have a leader. Standups were popularized alongside Agile, which is a framework for having all members of the team take on an equal leadership role. The idea of having standups under Agile was to provide a point for the "leaders" to coordinate themselves. If you have a designated leader, they are indeed dubious (and may also be dubious under Agile, but you cannot lean on a leader in that case, at least).
Dubious leader is not the leader. And having a team without a leader is not very good idea. If team is 2 people and both are equally qualify let them sort it between themselves.
> And having a team without a leader is not very good idea.
I mean, I'm not sure anyone seriously claims that Agile is actually a good idea. It may look like a nice idea on paper, not having a leader to get in the way of the people who know what they are doing, but not even the Agile Manifesto signatories were able to make it work in the real world when they worked together.
If you have a leader. Standups were popularized alongside Agile, which is a framework for having all members of the team take on an equal leadership role. The idea of having standups under Agile was to provide a point for the "leaders" to coordinate themselves. If you have a designated leader, they are indeed dubious (and may also be dubious under Agile, but you cannot lean on a leader in that case, at least).