Not the above poster but: it is _so_ much faster to figure out what somebody is doing wrong like this.

My first preference is a screenshare or video conference, so I can see what they see. Second is a phone call. Third is live chat like IRC or Slack and emails are a distant last place.

The same reason why sometimes meetings are actually important and faster to come to a decisions than email or chat. When you have all the stakeholders in front of each other, either physically or virtually, information is disseminated and decisions come together much quicker.

Indeed, the mythical "good meeting". I swear I've seen it firsthand, but nobody believes me.

The only times we've ever had meetings at work they've been good ones! We only have a few a year.