I treasure the meetings where my users surface requests, problems, and observations to me. Also the meetings where I jam with fellow engineers on how to solve specific problems. But the vast majority of the meetings on my calendar are what I would consider phatic [0]: they're about performing or convincing ourselves and each other of the idea "we are a team and we're collaborating" rather than any actual content, decision, or outcome we're collaborating on. The content is on Slack, or in the hallway.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phatic_expression