The comments here seem to misunderstand dynamics at big companies. Engineers often find themselves in meetings with 10s of people where there is no one person w

The comments here seem to misunderstand dynamics at big companies. Engineers often find themselves in meetings with 10s of people where there is no one person who could unilaterally reevaluate the usefulness of the meeting. Everyone in the meeting may be thinking "this is a waste of time", but each person doesn't know that everyone else is thinking that, so there is no natural processes to discuss ending the meeting. Worse, there is sometimes a perverse incentive to keep meetings going to maintain control or power. This change shifts the equilibrium from "default on" to "default off" in a way that probably would not happen organically at a big company.