Some people just want to have fun playing the game and for them fun is both players rolling the dice and taking what they are given.And that gets me to my last point: If you're at an elo where random civ nearly never happens, you're not that great of a player anyway - and neither is your opponent. Yeah, you might still be pretty good compared to the rest, but if you just play a solid game with a civ you like, you will be able to win. And even if you don't, it will make you better.
You're still far away from clean gameplay and this is something you should worry about much more at this point rather than civ selection. Maybe there are a few civs which put you at quite a disadvantage. But the vast majority of civs is perfectly playable, especially on Arabia.