What happened to this game?...

I played heavily in S2. I played a bit in S3, but the item and mastery changes especially for jungle threw off the game. So most of the season I found things outside of LoL to do. Some of the runes have been (armor) have been nerfed, but there is still no real viability for much variety in rune combinations.

Now the game seems to favor a very select few champions for gameplay, and most of the games I've played have been highly skewed to snowballing. Thoughts for and against the upcoming pre-season/S5 patch changes? (...I'm certainly opposed to them, seems like concepts that ruined Twisted Treeline will be coming in)