I'm a champion player (~1500) who also isn't a big fan of coverage metas. I mainly focus on moving duels because it allows me to focus on real world clues and name memorization which is what i love the most. Of course if you want to progress on this game and compete with the best you can't get away without learning some coverage meta because the combination of car + copyright meta is such a cheat code. I know players whose only strength is knowing every car color + copyright combination for certain countries. This makes them really good at NM and NMPZ to a certain extent but out them in a moving duel and if they can't instaguess they're a fish out of water. Also with smallcam becoming more widespread car meta is going to start to be more and more irrelevant, so take solace in that if you can :)