Ok, and then the person whose meeting you declined doesn't come to your meetings when you need them to. Or you get side/back channeled. Or you risk a worse review because they think you're an asshole, or not a team player, or have poor social skills, or begin to dislike you and notice all your other faults, and that makes it into the review directly (they're part of it or provide direct feedback)or indirectly (they ask your manager wtf is your problem).
If you want to be an edgelord about accepting meetings it's not going to work in your favor for most people/companies.
Based on when this conversation happened I expect it is a cultural difference; people who think this is normal are Indian/European and I am American.
In my experience in American bigtech, an engineer who rejects all meetings that don’t meet their own personal set of rules for what constitutes a worthwhile meeting (or I’m sure more accurately, applies those rules whenever they don’t want to attend) would be viewed very negatively. We’re expected to collaborate a lot by default, and by American standards it’s also a very snowflakey (making all meeting invites have to conform to your special little rules for you to grace us with your attendance) and aggressive way to express distaste in something.
IME it would be much better to directly just ask the creator if your attendance is truly necessary or even just noshow. But perhaps etiquette is different in other parts of the world.
If you want to be an edgelord about accepting meetings it's not going to work in your favor for most people/companies.