Townhall meetings unable to disable attendee response

Hi,

Is there a way to disable the email notification response for when attendees accept/decline the townhall meeting? I know I can disable the email entirely but this option prevents me from adding a distribution list or attendees directly into the townhall meeting setup in teams.

Is adding a link to the townhall meeting and putting it in a seperate outlook calendar meeting the only option to not get the response from the meetings? Why is this not disabled by default? Townhall meetings are meant for large numbers of attendees. Nobody wants 800+ notification emails in their inbox.

Please let me know if there is another way to do this.