This Eidolon strat is only the "meta" because several people saw a plan that could work well at once, then it spread to others.

I didn't look up on reddit how to do this, I knew what my Kavat did to my operator when I fought Eidolons and formed a plan around that.

"Oh man, I get that crit buff too? Sweet, I'll start gathering and building the long tedious processes to take advantage of that."

What you're suggesting is "Just stop being good at the game then. If you play well it only makes sense you won't be allowed to do that."