This is a whole cultural thing:

With the pushback being:
Yeah but you wouldn’t have read it.
Fair enough. Moreso than email though, any given meeting probably could and should have been documented in a written fashion. I’m a big fan of Notion. There is a ton of clarity with writing, and helps foster remote cultures. But emails are a little transient. It’s great they can be searched, but it’s not the same as a real organized document with the main goal of information sharing and same-page-getting.