I often compare Design Sprints to a cooking recipe, too.

Which means:

• sometimes, the normal recipe is exactly what you need, and it saves you a ton of time thinking and prepping

• sometimes, you just need to spice things a little bit up

• sometimes, you don't want to eat cookies again but want to create another meal from scratch.

So when I see that there are two very strong opposing clans that say:

• Design Sprints are bullshit

• Design Sprints are the solution to everything

The Swiss guy (you know we like our neutrality) in me likes to play in the middle.

Going further

This short answer is based on a conversation I had with lovely people in the comments of this Linkedin Post about some of the flaws of Design Sprints