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A good PM will herd all the cats and attend all the meetings you don't want to. They're worth their weight in gold.
A bad PM will do none of the above and constantly drag you in to fight their fires. They're worth their weight in, well, you know.
Note I've seen the "protecting me from a meeting" backfire so hard.
One time for lack of headcount I did a bit of double duty as project manager including executive meetings. Then management found a project manager and instead of knocking out my part of those meetings in like 5 minutes, I suddenly had generally hour long prep meetings so my new project manager would be confident enough to engage in whatever random topic the execs tended to go into. After a quarter they demanded I swap back in to do the meetings instead, which I was happy to do.
Also, those meetings are my best chance to cut through some confusion so I don't end up with a mess of crap in the tracker.
As a PM who tries to not waste anyone's time, thank you. I've had pushback before from people who don't like to do the talking, but I would only call that person forward if it's going to prevent a ton of headaches all around. Sometimes it's difficult to explain that. Otherwise I have no problem being the punching bag on stage. It's my job.