I'm actually seriously worried my current role is going to end up like that. The annoying thing is that the meetings are actually quite important and useful too

I'm actually seriously worried my current role is going to end up like that. The annoying thing is that the meetings are actually quite important and useful too (undoubtedly some of them could be shorter). But I know it's not inevitable as I did manage to avoid it in previous roles as a principal engineer, just not sure how now!