My iTunes Library is arranged with Artist as "Last Name, First Name"

So John Mayer songs have the artist field as "Mayer, John" (without quotes). I have a large physical CD collection arranged this way and it is the way I think. I have 10K+ songs tagged this way (although it doesn't impact a band name like The Beatles.)
Can I use iTunes Match successfully with the artist tags "backwards"? Will using the Match change the meta-data, if I download and replace? Most of my library is at 128K or 196K and I would like to upgrade matched songs to 256K.
I have searched this topic and found general assurances that meta-data does not change, but is that still true for a tag as basic as Artist Name?

Just as an aside, do you have your artists tagged like that for sorting purposes?
If so then it may be worth having a look at the "sort artist" field (under the sorting tag of get info.
In this way, you can have it displaying as John Mayer but sorting as Mayer John. As someone who had previously tried all sorts of sorting methods, this was just about the best discovery that I made about iTunes.
Apologies if you already knew this, or have some other reason for tagging that way, but I've been surprised by the number of people who aren't aware of this.

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