A 49% winrate is good with Black. It is impossible to maintain > 50% with Black unless you have a bad winrate with White, because if your overall winrate is > 50%, you will gain rating and play stronger players until it isn't anymore. Unless your name is Magnus Carlsen or Hikaru Nakamura.
There are no opening shortcuts for Black and trying to use one will just create worse problems than not knowing what to do in the opening. At 600 rapid, openings are basically irrelevant. If you quickly feel lost, that is normal. Chess is hard.
I've always had trouble playing black (Never had an issue when I play white) when it comes to the opening because I always have to react to what my opponent chooses to play as their first move. Right now, when my opponent plays e4 or d4 I play c6, the reason I do this is to try to enter the Caro-Kann or the Slav Defense. However its quite hard for me to learn both these openings at the same time and also I don't know if my opponent will even choose to play into the opening I want. Whats a good overall opening that I can play for most if not all first moves? The last time I checked my stats I had a 49% win rate with black because I tried experimenting with some other openings like the Dutch Defense and the Sicilian Defense. Please help me!!!