So I am on lichess in the 700es range and I continue to have these players as opponents who early on attack really aggressively.They must have some success with this (element of surprise I guess), but if I look at the stockfish analysis there moves arent so smart. (difficult enough for me to fend off though). I sometimes feel a little dumb, though because it can be quite hard to find out how to stop their attacks..
I think you just need to know the answers for early queen attacks and know all the expected tricks. That being said, I’m in the 1000s range and I still occasionally get rattled by early queen attacks and end up blundering something.