I can't tell you how many times being able to look something up to respond in a more concrete way has solved countless meetings.
Luckily, this company doesn't have many meetings, so it isn't a big deal.
Meetings can be valuable if people take them seriously (and if there aren't too many).
Clear agendas don't solve the problem of a bad agenda.
Meetings can be valuable but not nearly as valuable as peer to peer communication in the office. Meetings are almost always a waste of time where I work.
But when the questions and comments are not well expressed keeping the loop in text (email or Slack) makes the things worse. Obviously if you can just fire a voice conference everything can be sorted out but in my, just personal, experience remote workers are working more asynchronously and you don't expect to talk immediately without scheduling it earlier, much earlier than on-site where it is spontaneous.
Half of the time, you end up not sending the e-mail because you found the answer while organising your question.