I personally find the most productive meetings are where there is some kind of screen sharing on a document/something else. It gives something to focus on (so you're not tempted to read emails/do other things) and you don't have the annoyance/distraction of cameras (or they're only a small part of your screen).

It's got better now days but at the start of the pandemic every other video call with over n people would have interruptions/digressions when someone's dog/cat/kid walked into the background of someone's video.