That's not the point. The point is that meetings themselves are not work, and that in most cases they make the work more difficult. If no meeting happened, but

That's not the point. The point is that meetings themselves are not work, and that in most cases they make the work more difficult. If no meeting happened, but all the artifacts required to guide work exist and are accessible and understood, you come out ahead. A pull request doesn't replace a meeting, but it can obviate the need for a meeting. Information sharing, done. Feedback and suggestions, captured. Goal and metrics, visible. In my experience (working on both coding and non-coding initiatives) the most effective meetings are the ones teams ask for in addition to a thorough, async, text-driven collaborative process.