To be honest it doesn't bother me being less productive. If my employer pays me to do useless meetings, that's on him. The best I can do is to notify him about the state of things. Being productive or not doesn't matter much to me.
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.