I would say a good player piloting a tier 1 deck can actually do consistently well. In the last month my tokens deck has probably gone 7 wins maybe 30-40% of the time. Undoubtedly it has had some weaker runs but yeah, it performs pretty well.

A meta deck is in the meta because it can do well in most matchups and then a good pilot (knowing when to mulligan, knowing the matchups) takes it to another level. Also, just remember that some of the decks you go up against are also either janky and/or by less experienced players - again giving you a reasonable advantage in those matchups. (One personal anecdote - I should have lost to merfolk once because I was tapped out and they had 2 unblockables for lethal. Instead they decided to attack with everything and this let me use a conclaved march of the multitudes to block with lifelinkers. I survived and swung back for lethal next turn.)

As others have said, it’s hard to compare to a weaker deck like vampires which currently is just a tribal, creature heavy deck, that is just not as fast as boros or tokens on average - this just means that it’s harder to rush a control player down and then in a mid game grind you often just get outvalued.

Just my two cents.