[neilv]

Sounds crazy. With little info, I would guess one of:

* Management has lost faith in the manager and/or their team. (e.g., handholding to try to fix the manager/team, or to mitigate temporarily whatever turns out can't be fixed)

* The company, product, or some management role is in crisis, enough for management to be firefighting in desperation mode. (e.g., task re-triage up to once or twice a day can be a legitimate tactic, and I've seen a company saved that way; but two hour-long meetings of the entire team a day consumes huge time&energy, so that would need additional justification)

* Management is operating out of their experience, or overextended, and not adjusting fast enough.

If you trust your manager or the skip, you could go talk to them. But, if they are crazy or cruddy, you should be prepared to be leave, and not necessarily on your schedule.