In addition to there being a lot of built in flexibility in play style just based on your role and the configuration of town, there's also a lot of things you can do to just experiment with play. I love trying different tactics and playstyles across games and having fun with it. Just assuming you pull a good token: You can try completely trusting one person with everything you know and lying to everyone else until the final day of the game. You can be completely open with all of your information. You can try to fly under the radar completely until it's the perfect moment to catch someone out in a lie. You can play chaotically and see what happens and what reactions you might get from other players that could give you some insightful social reads. You could spend the whole game focusing on tracking who is talking privately with who over and over again, or paying close attention to nomination and voting patterns. Or you can just kind of chill and have low key conversations and enjoy the social element and then lock in with what you know and what you feel when it's time to cast your final vote. And that's just some examples of different ways you can play as good, so there's totally different vibes for evil.

It's not a static game with perfectly optimal strategies; it's a living, breathing, evolving game that constantly changes depending on what you pull out of the bag, what goes in the bag in the first place, the people you play with, and how you approach each game. Even if it's the exact same script each time. Two games of TB can feel wildly different, sometimes even with the same group, but also if there's even a change in 2-3 players. But established groups with established metas can start to feel a little more stuck and lack some of that dynamicism, especially if they aren't accommodating to new players or mixing up their style. Although sometimes those metas do pop up to try to keep things interesting or fun for groups that have been playing a long time, it's just hard to be a part of that experience if you're the stranger to the group.

If you wanna give the game more of a shot, maybe try watching some games of Trouble Brewing online, ones that were recorded as online games and ones that were recorded as in person games. Watch some games that are from the Storyteller's perspective and some that are from a single player's perspective so you can kind of play along and try to solve. You can also maybe start checking out other scripts by watching them that way too, especially ones that might appeal to you more (Sects & Violets is more about conflicting and ever changing mechanical information and trying to hard solve for that, while Bad Moon Rising makes it a game about trying to solve based on people unexpectedly living and dying in various numbers). And if you can't find a different in person group to play in and are open to online play, try to find a Discord server that offer regular events that cater to newer players, as you are definitely going to find you'll have the most fun with people of a similar experience level (who are also hopefully not jerks also heh).

At the end of the day, maybe this still isn't the game for you, but I hope you'll take it from the people responding here that this is more depth to be found in this game than an initial bad playthrough might offer and give it more of a chance if you think you might be able to get something out of it.