Players get stuck in a meta. That’s how meta works. Malay aren’t meta, so they haven’t got the exposure needed to understand the strength. That’ll change with time.
For the record, pros weren’t agreeing with anyone, top level teamgames weren’t being run by Khmer or any elephant civ for the entirety of the period whilst the forumgoers were complaining ad nauseum about it. Because it’s not actually that good.
Keep laughing. It doesn’t help your cause, and it won’t make it any less enjoyable when the inevitable comes to pass. Just know that what goes around, comes around. It’s offtopic so I’ll leave it at that.