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Few people can really be deck-builders, but many can be deck dimmers. That is to say, many should be able to experiment things, to be able to adapt. You are right: professional players are often better than we are, but that doesn't mean they are flawless, and it doesn't mean that their deck-lists are flawless too. In fact, deck-lists they create are far from being flawless and often/always need to be reshaped to the specific metagame you encounter.
(Actually, it also depends on the lists. Some deck-lists are really closed (ex. combo druid is an almost closed deck-list) while some others are extremely open (ex. Reno Mage).)
About netdecking, i've a quite funny anecdote to tell here.
On rank Legend, a streamer that I was watching encountered a Priest playing Grand Crusader.
When I wondered why, I figured out that the guy stupidly netdecked the deck that Kolento was playing. However, it was Kolento's “challenge Priest” (there was a challenge between some players: achieving r1 Legend with a bad card in the deck).
The guy hasn't been able to understand that Grand Crusader is a bad card — especially for Priest since it's a 6-mana cost card. And just because Kolento was playing it, he thought it was good.
Netdecking is a proof that you aren't experienced enough to create your own decks or/and to adapt to the metagame.
According to this statement, on one hand, not being experienced enough is not shameful.
For instance, my experience with some classes or even decks may be really bad. Thus I don't feel legitimate and I often just try others lists, only modifying often one or two cards.
Netdecking becomes a problem when experienced players do it.
I mean, being a good player doesn't only rely on your ability to do efficient plays.
It also relies on your understanding of the game.
And I would, by extent, say that your ability to play efficiently relies on your understanding of the game.
And the way you understand the game comes from different things:
1° The time you spend playing seriously.
2° What you read, watch and listen to.
3° Your ability to see the flaws in your deck-list and to remedy these flaws.
This is not a mystery that good to excellent players are also good to excellent deck-builders.
Actually deck-builders (I mean, the one creating serious stuff that matter in the metagame) are really few, and I can't consider myself as a deck-builder, but I'm more like a deck "dimmer".
And I would feel really bad if I had to netdeck for Priest, Mage, Druid or Paladin, for instance, because it would mean that my understanding of these classes isn't broad enough to reshape what others have done.