[azangru]

I understand why people can dislike meetings — after all, they are a distraction from their "actual work", which they consider to be coding — but I really hate the siloing, the incongruity and the wasted effort that happens when teams do not coordinate within themselves or with other teams.

As for managers being entirely unrealistic and demanding things that you as a developer consider to be computationally impossible, I think it's important to push back. This is what meetings should help to do. Surface the problems early rather than struggle with the problems long and quiet and then fail to solve them anyway.