What if Negativity Broke Agile?

I was looking at a drawing that I saved from LinkedIn this morning about "How to spot bad Scrum" and I started wondering if I should keep it. I thought it would be a cool tool if ever needed but then a thought struck me...

This is actually really negative.

I am all for us calling out what needs to be fixed, or what we should "Stop/Start doing". However I thought about the coaching moment this tool would be used for and three things came to my mind lightning fast:

1. It was "how to spot bad scrum". If I am using this tool with my team it is because we already have identified it. Why would I show this if my team has great scrum? the only real value this could bring is the "I knew I wasn't crazy" emotional release. Which is valuable, but is it productive? Will it produce in us a mindset needed to become the team we hope to be? Truth is that it could also backfire and create a "I told you so" mindset, making us experts in how to spot bad scrum while not escaping it ourselves. Nothing is worse than knowing the problem but not having the solution.
2. The Second thought was that when I am driving, if I see something off to the side of the road, I often drift toward it. Meaning that what we focus on becomes the destination. If I focus on "bad scrum" what do I get?
3. I have noticed a lot of hammering on scrum and agile lately - even to the point of "is agile dead? (Which is silly. If a cheetah forgets how to run and pivot, those concepts still exist.) Our minds are wired toward the negative, or so the TED talks say so it makes sense we would go this route with our contributions. Admittingly, I have also done my fair share, or at the least - liked the posts. I feel now that our criticism, though valid at times, is sometimes our venting masked and we might actually be unintentionally producing a negative fixed mindset in the agile community. We say we want to grow but find ourselves beating the same drum of "That's not agile!" or "SAFe sucks!" over and over and we don't realize the slow settling in of a "know it all/I told you so" mindset creeping in.

The one thing I know about growth is that environment matters. I wonder if we need to take a look "retrospectively" at the professional environment created around Agile and make some tweaks?

I so appreciate those who have rightfully called out anti-patterns, bad habits, and fallacies. I believe this was done in good intent. However, like in photography, the negative is only the start of development. It's raw form. I wonder if these are understood well now and we can forge on to promote from a positive perspective with full color such as "5 ways to power up your agility!" Versus "5 signs you're doing it wrong and how to fix it." It's great that the latter has "how to fix it" however our words matter just as much as our intent and it is the words we use that will produce the environment for the right mindset to flourish.

And when it comes to flourishing - even cancer grows. If we replicate the wrong cells in this agile body of professionals, we will find that our "growth mindset" may have grew all the wrong things. Today I commit to prune back my communication and focus to promote a more positive positioning of my understanding of agile, so that myself and my team can achieve our best while enjoying our work - because in the end, it was always about people, and how they work, first.

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Would be curious to hear your thoughts! Am I way off base? Is this just semantics?