This is my most-played game. I played this game more than 3000 hours. As a old player I know somethings are not the same. I miss old times.
At Season 5 the Summoner's Rift was changed and that progress was real successful. Champions reworked and some champions were strong some champions were weak. They've fixed that champions in less than one month.
At Season 6 the marksman champions was changed and after the changes champion balance, items was real good. Season 7 was similiar but a little bit worse than Season 6.
At Season 8 they've deleted all of the old runes system and masteries. They make runes similiar to masteries but different. At the beginning of the season there was some champion, item, minion and jungler camp balance problems but slowly (realy slowly) they've fixed. But there was a real strong champions and also there was a real weak champions also.
Yes I was complaining about some balancing things. And actually in some of those I really think they were unbalanced. But here in now Season 13, the game is absolutely better than before. Yes, we do miss somethings like Statikk Shiv or maybe pre-reworked champions. It is normal but all I can say the game is improved so much, in memories the old seasons were better, right? But they were not better. Just watch an e-sports video from 5 years ago. You'll realize that game evoled so much.
Afterall I'm not saying the game always gets better in everything. After releasing another games, Riot lost players in League. Because there were so many work now. But now I can see Riot is actually listens players. At least they listen more. But even now, I just can't see why some urgent nerfs are not coming? As a Brusier main, I can truly say they are so strong now. Why are'nt they nerfing Aatrox or Yuumi, they're so unbalanced, we watched it in Worlds, maybe 6-7 patches came but they didn't do many about those.
I know every preseason, unbalanced things happens. But this Aatrox and Yuumi thing was here even in Worlds. Yeah there are some other minor or major issues in my opinion, that was a current time example. I just sometimes wonder how are they making complicated characters like Viego or Sylas (complicated in programming) but how they can't balance some specific items or champions.
But again, if you think old seasons were better, just watch an e-sports match from old times.