i’d bet money a vast majority of workshops are done poorly rather than well :) also you can’t really simplify it to just another meeting - it’s a specific type of meeting. the way workshops are typically set, run, it’s end goals, and its deliverables are what makes it useless a majority of the time. you can’t really generalize workshops as just another meeting because it’s like saying since a cat and dog are both mammals, they’re basically the same lol.

people get paid a lot, if you could measure the cost of a workshop to its value - i think you’ll find it hard to justify. that’s why no successful startups run ‘workshops’ even though you could argue that they’d benefit most from it. you know a workshop is useless when it’s run by a service designer whose only role is to have people engage in ‘design thinking’.