I am not saying non-meeting work is not important, but that meetings (or rather, communication) is equally important, but that there are usually meetings where

I am not saying non-meeting work is not important, but that meetings (or rather, communication) is equally important, but that there are usually meetings where we should be more considerate of everybody's time. As I said, I think you just phrased it awkwardly, since I doubt all your non-critical meetings were exactly on the day you stopped working in your workweek.