This is what I do now. Achieving effiicency through performing all these steps carries it's own kind of burden. This has led me to conclude that effectively scheduling a meeting is a job I'm desperate to offload to someone else.

For all it's failings, Microsoft 365 has a Bookings feature that greatly simplifies the amount of work required: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/bookings/boo...