Board Game Arena

I am just a begineer for this game, after i read a detail guide i manage to at least know what i am doing in this game and able to perform some strategy, for this game so far i only saw two types of strategies which is develop strategy that look like meta in this game and shipping strategy, i have tried shipping strategy a few time but i figure that even the best shipping strategy consumer market may hard to win against develop strategy.this is not because i need to sacrifice alot of explore action and i cannot develop many thing that enchance my ability of leeching, income and reassign.

so i want to ask is it ok for me to always give up shipping strategy even i get consumer market? I realize many people directly abandon the novelty world even with consumer market as starting title and just focus on develop strategy.