I don’t know how to not be this person.

Everybody else is wrong. A meeting is for back and forth communication. If they didn’t want a meeting, they shouldn’t have scheduled a meeting. Just write a memo or something. Everybody has far too many meetings anyways, and you’re an asshole if you waste everybody’s time on extra meetings that aren’t even meetings.

Yeah seriously, body communication is still communication, this host just doesn’t want negative feedback.
Is the best part of, no it’s the only real reason, for in person meetings