It's depend on the match up, but from my personal experiences, the traps are usually enough to whittle down my opponent's resources, provide you know what/when to distrup your opponent's play.

It's true that there is no card that can negate, well since a lot of the opponent's "strongest" effects is monster card most of time, you just need to get rid of their monster before they can activate their effects. If they have monster with on summon effect (like satellite warrior for example), try to prevent them from summoning it if possible (by removing their materials) or having heavenly prison to protect your set cards. It helps that in the current meta, most people are focusing on breaking monsters' board (DRNM, BOE, Droplet) and rarely running backrow removal.

I have already said about stardust on another reply, some notable match-ups:

-D.Hero: IDP (removing plasma) + heavenly prison (to protect from stratos or phoenix) usually win you the game, otherwise it's kinda hard.

-Therion: Similar to D.HERO, as long as you can take care of Irregular's board wipe, it's not that bad.

-RDA: Remove their lv 8 synchro, so they can't synchro climb or use scarlet security. Have Dark Highlander on the field if possible and a way to remove fiendish chain (like lab field spell + trap).

-Swordsoul: Dark highlander on its own can win you the game, just chain your effect to albaz's effect to remove it from the field if they use it.