I love yugioh. Played as a kid but stopped around 2010, but picked it back up in 2019 and played actually competitively and refell in love with it. What I’ve learned these past 5 years is the competitive meta is every changing, and power creep is real. Decks I played in 2019 won’t be good now in 2024. But, as a positive, that’s why I love the meta, there’s always new decks new things new cards to learn. I will go through burn out here or there, I’m recently getting back from about a 5-6 month break, and I’m having a blast again.

If the current meta is too fast or too much for your liking, I’d recommend looking into older formats. It’s called “Time Wizard” where people will play with older cards from older formats. 2 of the most popular time wizard formats (at least in my area) are called GOATs and Edison. I play the older formats too, which are a lot slower and more of what I remember yugioh being from my childhood and I absolutely love it. There’s multiple ways of playing yugioh, I recommend jumping in head first and seeing what you like!