Quote Originally Posted by Razhius View Post
You keep calling it the 2 min Meta...

It's not a meta.

A meta emerges organically by the playerbase through experimentation, strategy crafting and so on.

This is a dev design decision. Not a meta.
META (Most Effective Tools Available) is a common terminology for a set of actions, equipment, strategies, builds etc. that a community agrees on to be (highly) viable if not the best to use, depending on various circumstances.

Not once have I heard that community agreeing to a common standard organically and developer intention bruteforcing it needing to be mutually exclusive to call things "meta". The commonly used terminology is the acronym named above, so I'm not sure what your intent is here. It is a 2min meta, whether you like the terminology or not.

Some sources to read up about it:
[DOT Esports] What is “the meta” and how does it affect gaming?
[Plarium] Meta in Gaming: What Does it All Mean?
[ggn00b] What Does “Meta” Mean In Competitive Gaming?
[GINX.tv] The Meta or Metagaming, explained in less than 3 minutes

They may not all be 100% accurate, but not once am I reading "must be mutually exclusive with devs intention" in any meaning.