I haven't been back to meetup after the pandemic as I moved cities but most of the meetups I used to go didn't come back, which is unfortunate. I guess the main option is for you to start your own, not much else to be done. Before the pandemic me and a friend resurrected the Golang meetup in PHL and it was mostly a success, you won't know if it will work or not unless you try it.
It also seemed like Meetup jacked up their prices. I remember seeing a lot of groups go dark after warnings from Meetup that their maintainers had abandoned the group due to the cost.
