@NNeil6991 I'm definitely not arguing he's meta mate - he's not 🙂 But meta in games like this is as much to do with following a trend as technical advantage and superiority of the legends.
The ABSOLUTE best players who play certain legends and define the meta often are playing the best FOR THEM, and everyone from the 2nd best player down through the various strata of tryhard/sweaty players decide to emulate them. Meta to me on a technical level would just mean - the most advantageous configuration possibly produced by the game.
Meta in our culture is often a choice to blindly follow example made by all the subscribers to it but when a game is well balanced (as I think Apex is in danger of being 😛) a meta can change even when the game doesn't, meaning either new discoveries about how to have the most advantage have been made, or someone with a lot of social influence (Shroud) has decided to main someone new.