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This is how you end up with meetings to decide if a meeting is needed.

Isn't it the same thing? The approvals are to verify that the meeting is necessary.

I'd assume that other communication is done semi-formally, e.g. a slack group or call. Updates are asynchronous, someone does an update and the the whole group knows. Anything where you have to block out 2 hours of everyone's time should be approved.

They are not the same thing. I'm not disagreeing with the specific example you supplied, either.

As much as I dislike pointless meetings, this approach would not work in my workplace. Senior management would view this as a request to be babysat. Employees are all expected to host and attend meetings, and everyone is responsible for the value of this time|work.

Meetings come in all shapes and sizes.

That is true. I think many engineers would feel less empowered if approval for meetings was needed. I think that is not feasible.