Imagine how productive you would be if you could magically shift all your meetings and interruptions to only a few days a week and you were able to focus the rest of the week on coding.
I think if meetings seem useless the right thing to do is talk to your boss until you understand why the meeting is useful, or they understand why it is not useful. Your employer is not paying you to shrug your shoulders and declare you get paid the same either way
They do have the right to ask it because they’re paying me, but there comes a point where I’d say no.
To me, meetings distract from the real work, for her, they are the real work. Meetings are where decisions are made, but not where product is made. I make product, she makes decisions.