I hate that riot is trying to make way for the future. "We need to make this game suitable for the new generation, so it can grow into an olympic sport 5-10 years from now, we need to make sacrifices, so screw everyone who's made our game a success the past 6-7 years, we aim for the FUTURE" - Riot 2016.
This is how i feel as a veteran player. What was even the point of DQ? The game was already great, just build upon the success, we never needed DQ. As far as i know, a lot of casuals were perfectly happy with team builder, they don't need the competitiveness from ranked. Those who wanted competition, went duoQ or team ranked and everyone was happy.
What is Riot gonna do when streamers gets too sick of the queue times, can't stand the premades and just stops to stream, they lose sooooo much free publicity. But Riot is like, who cares if we lose the high elo players, they are the 0.01%, we want the other 99.9%.
So 5-10 years from now, congratulations Riot, you are now Blizzard, your game is world of warcraft, nobody takes it seriously, nobody is concidering it an e-sport and only casuals playing normal games, aram and urf are left playing your game. Was it worth it? I sure hope so.