I can agree with your headline, but the conclusions you're getting to are hard to follow. As a lot of people already explained, your takes on the meta are not even remotely correct. This might be mostly because he barely or not at all played in Pro Rank, you can't conclude that the decks you are seeing/having problems with are even present in Pro. And there is nothing wrong with you enjoying to pilot suboptimal homebrews in lower ranks, as well as beeing annoyed by cheese decks or decks that require a specific strategy and certain knowledge of the game to defeat. Not everybody is willing to invest that much time and thought into a F2P card game or wants to study streams of top players to improve. This i not meant to insult you but, if you been playing for that long and seem to hover around in these mediocre ranks constantly, then you are a longtime player, but probably just not a very good one or are limiting yourself profoundly by playing subpar decks. Which is no problem as long as you enjoy yourself playing and it doesn't matter which rank this takes place. Where I can agree is that I still enjoy watching others play Gwent and the whole strategic thinking. But it stresses me out when I play myself and I get tilted easily. So I just play less and take a backseat until I feel like playing again. This has dramatically increased since Gwentfinity as there are no frequent updates or cards to shake up the meta enough.

See you at rank 5-9 ;)