My wife would be in the former category (PO for the biggest software product in her company). Some days she has meetings back to back for 8h straight.
She hates in person meetings. According to her:
- Online/hybrid meetings are easier to keep on schedule (both starts and finishes are often delayed)
- In person meetings more often go off topic
- back to back meetings means going from one meeting room to another in person, sometimes in another building. That same time can instead be used to take notes/prepare the next meeting when you don't have to walk anywhere and just click a button to be In the next call
- when a meeting turns out to be irrelevant or useless to you, it is socially not acceptable to get up and leave. Just not having your camera on and doing other work on the side works without anyone knowing
In person work is only for when companies don't trust their employees. This is also true for people whose main work tool is meetings.