Ships have turned into a nightmare....

This garbage coin flip fleet Meta has now further increased my apathy towards how I approach this game. I barely can muster any enthusiasm for doing Fleet battles, as well as pursuing any engagement fleets within GAC now. The gameplay now in fleets is essentially flip a coin with heads that you may actually go first and have a decent chance or tails you get punched in the face by Mike Tyson and is a painful waste of time.  Have now reached the point that if my opponents fleet goes first I force quit and forfeit because the waste of time.  I have been playing for almost 9 years now and this has further eroded any joy coming from this game. The only happiness I find now is just the community of my guild.