Is it safe to come back now?

Due to my recent distraction with games of the steam summer sale and Overwatch I kinda dropped the ball on league for like 1-2 months.

But the state back then when I left was not exactly a refreshing one either. And since I've been passing by the boards and the usual pages from time to time it doesn't look like it got any better.

From what I have seen at Surr@20 the Ryze rework is just another failure that will probably get a re-re-re-re-work in the future again. Seriously, either make him a damaging mage and give him some awesome spell to blow people up with, or make him a gimmicy mage build around shamless amount of tricky utility. Both would go with the vague "rune magic" thing. However, Riot managed to kinda miss both at once while perpetuating the same mistake since the Juggernaut update when reworking stuff: either go big or go home. Constantly trying to work as minimalistically as possible is not exactly a good way to rake in results.

The new champ teaser... I'm not exactly sure, but it looks like a mix of bland archetypes mashed together for the sake of absurdity. Maybe the lore department will surprise me here, but I doubt it. Talking about lore, Riot seems to have really dropped the ball on that one. Until now not a single plotline has been resolved in any way. Not even minor ones. It's like the writers are too scared to bring literally any storyline to an end, instead the story either adding new elements (shadow and fortune) or more or less being some kind of filler (shurima) with no real conclusion in any way. Literally the only thing that has changed after that story is that some characters have met some other characters and then parted ways again while not achieving anything. Also, the fact that several champs still have no reason to even exist since the rework is still not completed speaks volumes about the department's competence in my eyes.

I have no clue how balance is right now - the boards were never a good indicator for this if I am honest. I hope you can answer me that, but I have the eeire feeling that it's still just as screwed up as always, but I'd be positively surprised if something has changed, ya never know after all.

For me that's kinda weird. Back in the day I was the total fan of this game. I have a fandom blog, wrote fanfics, discussed lore theories, had lol screensavers on every device, and several lol themed shirts at home. I am usually what people consider a "total fanboy". And yet i am not sure if this game is even worth returning to.

Ah yes, and still no SoloQ. Another point that is not exactly motivating when deep down inside you know that your rank means nothing, because every legally boosted noob also has the same. And a fancy badge is not going to fic the premade vs. solo issues either.

So, to repeat my question in the title, is it safe - or rather even worth - to come back now? I'm curious to hear your opinions here.