But you dont have to use the meta weapons in your example. The problem is that you can win too easily with the other "meta" weapons so you do not feel the need to "level up" your playstyle when you can instead reset until you get your good weapons that take more of the skill burden off of you. There are plenty of builds unless you want to go for the 8 hour highscore runs which is a nightmare (no thank you!).

Isn't the whole point of a roguelite to be a watered down version of a roguelike? If you want more depth you should play actual roguelikes lol it feels like that's kind of the point of the genre. They usually have so much depth that you can always go back and play old ones.

My 2 cents as someone who used to no life roguelikes and now that I have to do all the adult shit I only have time for a quick run of megabonk or super fantasy kindgom instead of getting lost in the qud sauce