Top lane is the worst lane to carry from

I'm talking about from a global perspective that top lane has the lowest influence on the game. As far as each role in concerned, jungle and mid have the most say over how well your other teammates do, the position of mid on the map makes it an arms reach to walk to any other lane/objective on the map. You are the closest lane to bot, AND top, you are closer to the dragon-side jungle than top and the same distance to top as baron (you are actually in the center of everything) meaning if you need to join up with jungler or bot lane, you can reach them faster than top.

It's the same with Jungle, you literally get gold for being on every side of the map killing camps; Being a "global" influence on any lane you decide to gank on your route, meaning, that like mid you have a "say" in what happens in every single lane, which affects how well your team does. Even Support and ADC have more influence than top does. Because say as a support, if you play well get your adc a double kill bot, now that means YOU are in a better spot, your ADC is in a better spot, their support is in a worse spot, and their adc is in a worse spot. making a 4/10's shift on the game as far as how many players are affected.

Now look, I know what you are going to say right? Well you see, if the jungler or mid lane comes and messes with you top, there's a good chance you are going to have to burn it to get back to lane, even if you didn't die, because you will get behind. But aside from that teleporting is honestly somewhat of a large risk if you don't get anything out of it, unlike say ing someone and not getting a kill, you have to possibly risk losing your tower, or having it heavily chunked AND miss CS top if your teleport doesn't work out, it's also heavily in the hands of your team as to WHERE they ward if you can even make a tp play or not. (watch your botlane never ever preemptively place a ward that will let you teleport behind their bot lane.) But more-over teleport got nerfed this season, meaning that you just have a worse chance of doing something useful to your team with it.

I feel like the only way to make top more meaningful/connected to team-success is to either buff teleport or turn rift herald into something more meaningful, like a global buff like infernal drake, because at least that way, you are indirectly helping your team be in a better spot, rather than getting a "greedy" buff that only helps you out. It's just too often than bot lane loses or jungle got behind and the enemy jungle proceeds to roll over your other lanes and you had very little say in the events leading up to that point.