Reading between the lines, my guess is that the standup was the only forum for communication that the team had, and lots of communication was required because people weren’t working on the same things. The only real solution to that is to get people talking outside the standup.

Turns out that when you already have a meeting scheduled every single day, people (except for a few) just stop seeking each outer at other times.

As much as this looks like a good thing superficially, dailies aren't fit for solving any kind of coordination problem, and that's the only meeting you will get.