Agreed - however I think the meeting in person should be among the representatives and their constituents, not each other.
Ideally AOC, for example, would be in a convenient location in her district and meet with members of her district who want to watch her represent them. The other advantage of this is when there's a lull (due to the boring procedural bits of governance) they might ask her to bring something up that's relevant to the current discourse.
I'd put equal importance on both their meeting constituents and attending Congress in person. Representing constituents shouldn't be a just in time operation, so I don't think there should be a realtime channel to the representative.
But either way, in normal times, it's not like there are a lot of constraints on them spending lots of time in person in both places.
Ideally AOC, for example, would be in a convenient location in her district and meet with members of her district who want to watch her represent them. The other advantage of this is when there's a lull (due to the boring procedural bits of governance) they might ask her to bring something up that's relevant to the current discourse.