> There better be, in standard the meta game is basically designed in a lab and prescribed to the player base.

The sheer number of bans in standard the past few years proves this isn't the case. That might be the image Wizards' designers like to project, but it is clear they are not able to predict how players will use the cards they print.

> Commander is a casual format, it’s not competitive nor meant to be.

There is literally a competitive commander format (cEDH), and the "hell queue" in historic brawl on Arena shows that there are other very competitive commander-based formats.