The lack of meeting rooms is because they want to save money on real estate and rationalize it as meetings are supposed to happen in the bullpen where everyone can hear and contribute. If they wanted people to shut up and code they'd have personal offices or cubicles
Yes. A key idea of Agile (maybe Scrum specifically) thinking is that you release and retrospect/rethink often, instead of long-term working on unlaunched projects from an ancient plan. I guess if you skip the rethink part than you aren't doing sprints property.
An insight of Agile is that your have to pick either a feature based release schedule or a time based release schedule, not both, which is impossible and that time-based is better.
The issue isn't that it's hard to read. The issue is that humans are psychologically conditioned to believe whatever the machine says and not their own eyes.