Am I the only one who doesn't hate plants that much?
I mean sure there is the vision globe of destruction that reveals half of the map, but the blastcone and honeyfruit are quite awesome. It all comes down to knowing the plants and how to use them, and it's been quite fun blasting my entire team to the enemy camp and taking first blood or blasting away enemies that carelessly walked to a blast cone to jump in the baron pit.
Anyway my point is that it isn't all that bad. I don't play jungle so I don't know how that is for you guys but overall I think they are quite cool. So my suggestion is to give them a little bit of time to get used to, maybe we'll like them.