Malay are literally one of the best civs in the entire game for closed maps. Viper considered them to be the strongest arena civ, period.
Winrates tell you almost nothing in a vacuum and trying to make absolutely any reasonable point using nothing but the winrates as guidance is misguided to say the least. I didn’t want to have to explain all the reasons last night, but this morning I elaborated in my own new thread before I left for work.
Just in time, since my post was then (rightfully) flagged as offtopic. So there you go. I’m only ever gonna write this thing once.