I've found if the teams have mostly senior engineers there is very little need for meetings. In my current situation we just have one meetings per week to discuss status and priorities. Everything else is slack chats and adhoc meetings among individuals as needed. Mostly everyone is in sync on what is the right thing to do or if not, hash it out in a quick discussion.
That's how I love to work. We are adults and most of our workload is fundamentally adhoc, changing with our business partnerships and market fit. Unfortunately at my current job we squaded up adding extra meeting load anyone who works across squads. With weekly planning meetings and standups for every squad it's rough. Also people treat standups like they are free, why not add more? Well they are not. I have to fight being put on more than one. It's already one more than I would like anyway :)
