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I found that the more focus you put into async communications, the fewer meetings you have.

Even so, I've seen people focus on running good meetings. And it does help quite a bit, so I wouldn't discourage your direction at all. But you should also maintain an awareness that the most efficient meeting is one where it is never needed in the first place.

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Came here to comment the same.

Any tool should start by asking "Could this meeting be an email, Slack message, a poll or a shared document?". Maybe even go further and ask why, so at the end of the month people can check if the reasons given really made sense.

I like this starting question! Maybe, the first thing you're prompted when you go to schedule a new meeting is "can this be an email, ping, or doc?"

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