Because, honestly, have you met us? We're a team of highly trained, highly paid professionals who can't even manage to send a simple email without turning it into a 3-hour PowerPoint presentation.
We're like the Swiss Army Knife of meetings: we're equipped with an endless array of unnecessary attachments, diagrams, and flowcharts that will "ensure clarity" and "foster collaboration" but really just guarantee that nobody shows up on time and the coffee machine is always out of coffee.
So, let's just say it: we're not just meeting about the thing. We're meeting about the process. The process of creating the thing, the process of presenting the thing, the process of revising the thing, and the process of wondering why we can't just email it like normal people do.