It's a bit easier to make offbeat-decks look interesting on Youtube though.

I think this points to one of the biggest issues with the problems with the current meta. Not only are the decks very settled with a lot of stale extreme lopsided matchups, but those decks are _very_ strong.

I'm not saying it was easier to make competitive decks, because it wasn't. But it was easier to make workable and marginal decks that with some decent piloting could at least hold their own. And you often mop up a fair bit of the "rote" players that just play by learning matchups almost by heart.

The streamers that often play offbeat-decks tend to look very bored these days. For good reason... such decks do not work all that well.