For amateurs who want to play a game right at the table, there are a couple schools of thought on this.
One is to play a light spin mostly drive style with FAST OFF+ blade and fast rubber - this kind of setup is optimized to bang away, very controllable for that. If you are good enough eyes to hit with less time at table, that style can work. Another related style is the close to the table hitter/smasher. They serve tricky, and look to put away the loose return with a powerful shot close to table. Difficult to be consistent, but the ones who manage this scare the living shyt outta players who cannot get there serves back with quality.
My idea of a modern player close to table is one who is a flexible attacker who prefers close to table to use ALL the shots possible, relying mostly on spin, but also with an ability to counter hit or block. Slower the blade the better for this, so ALL+ wood blade is the sweet spot with a modern FH rubber and some control rubber on BH. The idea is you can hit harder and still land the ball with a slower bat and controllable modern rubber, this lets you be more aggressive on counterdrives. Another benefit is on the shots that are not all out, you have more control with your good spin and less speed, plus better touch. This opens up some good stuff and is a valid style to explore. Since when you hit hard you are on endline, you hit quicker and opponent has less time, you don't need 53 Gs of force torque on your drives or loops to finish. You can still open heavy and then hit or powerloop. A good modern rubber on an ALL+ blade can still have a decent top end speed.
I purposely left out which blades and rubbers. Just about every company makes 2-12 of these blades and at lease 1-3 rubbers suitable. Pointless to try to name them all, that would make a database in itself. Look at my sig with the same blade or Lissom to get an idea, but there are HUNDREDS of blades and dozens of rubbers possible.
Changing equipment is never gunna get anyone to read spin better, be in position more, know the strike zone, recover, etc, but it is good to use equipment that makes the main shots you do easier or controllable over other equipment not quite as well suited..