The SAFe team published an official response (article) that addresses the growing negative marketing / FUD articles:
http://scaledagileframework.com/safe-sound-and-fud/
The article concludes in:
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But in any case, SAFe is just a framework, not an ideology, and it is freely-revealed and publicly facing. You can read it, try it, reason about it, use whatever works, and decide on your own, and you don’t really need any of our opinions for that!
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