This season adapts one of imo the worst arc of the series for the first 10 episodes, and those episodes are the ones make people leave the series. Those first 10 episodes feels like they're abandoned in the first place so they can make the latter part of the season good. It comes back to individual preferences, we've seen Rimuru's journey throughout season 1 and 2 -- then in episode 11-24, we can see Rimuru's ideal world taking place, and the story is being told with a slice-of-life type of storytelling. It's probably hard to get through the "meetings", but the story definitely gets betterin the latter part of the season, season 4, and later seasons if still adapted.

Dropping this series just because of the meetings sounds so sad to me. Just watch in 1.5x or something, the details are in the light novels anyway.