I'm a little curious about the rapid decay of LCS player 'status'

So I noticed this some last year, but it seems even more prevalent this year, the relative disregard for previous top tier players given by the casters. I expect it from the internet fan base because people on the internet tend to behave a certain way, but the casual dismissal and near-disrespect of the players who have heavily contributed to making the LCS the success it is today is puzzling.

Some examples:

AlexIch was almost never referred to by name, just as 'the mid lane sub'

Balls, Hai, and Lemonation, once the backbone of a team that dethroned TSM and had record setting seasons, are immediately considered to be a bottom tier team.

Wild Turtle, once the Pentakill-scoring darling of the TSM bot lane, is now talked about as if he had never been considered a top tier ADC.

I realize this game is a young person's sport with incredibly short careers, but whereas other sports seem to enshrine the best players of years gone by (I mean my friends still argue about whether Barry Sanders, Emmitt Smith, or Thurman Thomas was the best running back, and it's been around 20 years since they retired), League seems to try to forget them and act embarrassed if they're still around.