Yes to communicating with each other and knowing what you're working on, no to doing it every morning. Once a week, every two weeks, or once a month is fine. Any integral communication that can't be handled by the recurring meeting, can be handled ad-hoc as you go.
But people who have only done capital A agile and scrum are so buried in the philosophy that they don't understand that there are far better ways to do things.
I'm not sure how that's supposed works if most team members are burning through 14 tasks or 10 tasks or 5 tasks in a two week period. If your tasks are two week chunks, then you're doing something else completely different.
Over a 40 year career I've done all kinds of methodologies. If you understand that there are far better ways to do things, I'm all ears.
The big advantage to agile/scrum methodologies in my opinion: dramatically improved predictability. Total elimination of drama. Efficient management of expectations outside of the development group. Never having to do a death march ever again.
But people who have only done capital A agile and scrum are so buried in the philosophy that they don't understand that there are far better ways to do things.