> My previous company spent 1 hour every Wednesday talking about whatever urgent items needed to be addressed and then we peaced out for the rest of the week unless anything came up

This is agile.

> My current company spends 4 out of 8 hours every day in meetings. These meetings include: - Stand up - Sprint planning - Retrospective - Refinement - probably 5 others that I’m forgetting

This is simply dysfunction.

You're contrasting process heavy vs process light, not agile vs. an alternative methodology.

When people contrast agile against something, it's typically the waterfall method of design. And you'd know that if you saw it. (Interviews, design docs, stakeholder sign offs, etc. before any code happens.)