This is exactly right. If a project is well-described then 90% of the real production work should be tracked by the project framework. You mark task X done to

This is exactly right. If a project is well-described then 90% of the real production work should be tracked by the project framework. You mark task X done to tell your current self, your future self and your manager that, at this moment, you think you did X. Getting meat together in a room to make flapping mouth sounds is mostly useful when kicking around concepts and planning the future. I spent most of last year with a boss who kept saying "I really want you to come in, just in case you have a question." He said this during a growing pandemic. In my field we deal with buildings and my boss was in sales, so that meant I saw him maybe four hours out of a week. I'm supposed to commute five hours a week and sit in a dangerously non-masked office forty hours a week in case I have a question too complicated to handle over e-mail or video? When our product is specifically remote control? What this suggests is that management doesn't know its job well enough to describe it in words. I'm now 100% remote at a job that pays more and is higher profile and I'm accomplishing more in a day than I was in a week.