I’m trying to describe the premise from the article rather than speaking generally, to better understand the opinion of the commenter whom I’m replying to. For

I’m trying to describe the premise from the article rather than speaking generally, to better understand the opinion of the commenter whom I’m replying to. For the purposes of the question, I want to assume that the OP accurately describes the situation as one in which those meetings would be unnecessary. I perhaps did a poor job of representing that.