You do realize that first turret gold was distributed into the plating right? Which would you rather, the Jungler ganks and then takes the turret five minutes into the game? OR that the Jungler ganks, they knock off two plates, you KEEP your turret, and the enemy team DOESN'T get 1k gold five minutes into the game? Your choice.
That's just change for the sake of change.
No, that is putting the game on rails. If I want to play a linear story game, I'll go play the Walking Dead (cause your choices don't matter much).
Unspecific. 350 dollars of gold to who? Local? Global? The person who knocks down the turret?
Arbitrary change without any reason given. Your "fix", insinuating that there is something wrong with the plating system, is poorly explained.