Meetings are expensive, time is literally money when you are paying employees. Costs scale linearly as you add more participants and time; value added doesn’t always scale proportionally.
In the best case scenario, there is an agenda sent out before the meeting begins, and written minutes shared after.
Regardless of the best case, in general keep it under an hour. The longer it gets, the more likely you lose attention. Some short meetings can be a message or smaller group conversation.
Sometimes you need a long meeting, try breaking it up. Attention is limited and a valuable resource.
If you didn’t provide any input to the meeting, question why you needed to be there.
If the purpose of the meeting is to convey information in a single direction, can it be an email? A document? A visualization?
I’m not saying never have them. I actually really quite like them. Context matters a lot here. A fully remote environment is different from being in person. Sometimes you’re right there and it’s faster to scoot over to a desk and chat irl; sometimes you’re across time zones and organizing a meeting is faster than playing tag over a chat client.
They’re not evil, but use them wisely.