He mentioned a new software job. An onboarding "event" should more or less happen existing software /architecture. This wasn't mentioned.

Pair programming is slow. You want everyone to be B+, while they become C's.

I keep the A+'s and migrate the F's to testing or something else.

I never excluded meetings anywhere.

I suppose the normal flow of analysis and explaining inner workings/features is still possible, I hadn't banned them. Just mentioned the stand-up as a recurring event for normal development days