Host meta is for heathens. It doesn't even work 99 % of the time anyway.
D1 reads are not random at all, and they provide critical info later on. I was in a game off-site that just ended, and town won mainly because it was able to detect townies that were spewed clear by flipped scum.
I like D1 lynches because they give information to work with early on; to use my example again, town was able to detect townies because scums had flipped early. Plus, the lynch type is plurality + majority, so we don't exactly have a choice.