everyone at the company would almost certainly like to move faster
Not necessarily true. This is certainly the case at a startup, but at a more established BigCorp, things move slowly, and the ability of an engineer to work at a slower pace is an asset. You may be waiting on legal approval for weeks or months, or a software review from infosec, signoff from finance on integration testing for a new payment processor, or any number of processes that are not banging out code as quickly as possible (these are all actual examples from my company). In these cases, you shouldn't have to BS your way through a standup, but you will have times where a week goes by and you haven't written a single line of code, and that is exactly what the job requires.
Or demoing to stakeholders, gathering business requirements, communicating new content that needs to be received etc. Those are all important reasons to go slower too
Not necessarily true. This is certainly the case at a startup, but at a more established BigCorp, things move slowly, and the ability of an engineer to work at a slower pace is an asset. You may be waiting on legal approval for weeks or months, or a software review from infosec, signoff from finance on integration testing for a new payment processor, or any number of processes that are not banging out code as quickly as possible (these are all actual examples from my company). In these cases, you shouldn't have to BS your way through a standup, but you will have times where a week goes by and you haven't written a single line of code, and that is exactly what the job requires.