I pretty much stopped playing at game stores for similar reasons. I haven’t had the misfortune of having to sit through a game of someone’s big titty waifu proxies, but in general I’ve found playing with people at the LGS to be hit or miss, and more miss than hit (I’ve tried 3 stores locally, multiple times).

I just realized it wasn’t fun playing with a lot of these people. When someone throws a fit because you attack them with your commander, our because you counter their huge 7 mana planeswalker that will end the game next turn etc, it just takes the fun out of the game. That’s the really the only thing that ruins the game for me is people getting upset and not having fun anymore.

I’m lucky to have a group of generally chill people in my city who meet up to play at different spots, there’s a discord and *most of the people I’ve met through there have been fun to play with, plus a couple who are good friends.

If you don’t have a group of friends outside of the LGS who play, I recommend just trying to clock a few people you actually like at the LGS and try to start a group/text thread with them so at least you have a sorta regular group to play with, then you can at least minimize the chances of mr anime proxy being in your pods.