I’m a competent, experienced developer. I’be worked in agile, waterfall and “faux-agile” teams. The agile ones have been the best - they adapt quickly to change, have good estimates of progress, and keep all of the team members and wider stakeholders involved in the project.
If there are useless meetings in your development team, remove them. If you can’t remove them, then your team is being mismanaged and no form of development methodology will fix that.
And also, bear in mind that even among developers on a team there are different sets of skills and preferred working patterns. You may not need some interactions, while other team members benefit from them; remember that the useful measure is the amount of work the team as a whole can achieve!
My experience is that it is more likely that "hero devs" who love to do what they think is important rather than what the team needs will hate any attempt to reign them in.
