And how will one hurt themselves when these designers have often been given actionable as well as emotional and visceral responses to their reworks?
Karma's was a clusterfuck that was on the backburner for years, and had what, 3 separate designers work on in?
Skarner's initial rework was trash, but Scruffy's followup work with the community was not only highly regarded but did a LOT to restore the community's faith in him and his goal with Skarner.
Stashu's initial rework was worse than Scruffy's, and for some reason I get the feeling that Scruffy is in the background trying to help Stashu work this out with the community, but unlike Scruffy during the Skarner rework Stashu is unwilling or doesn't care to work with the Cass players on what they really want on the rework, which is a reworked rework passive and a focus on poison, not machine-gunning.
Xelnath and Xerath did well because there was borderline EXCESSIVE communication upfront about the rework, and steps weren't taken until they were brought infront of the community and tested extensively.
Eve's rework was actually pretty fantastic. The overall stealth rework was adequate in what it needed to accomplish, and Eve was a terror post-rework for quite some time until they had to nerf her ult because Ult+DFG mid lane eve was broken as shit.
Katarina rework, though initially poorly received, turned out to put her in a better position, but that was at the beginning of what we can associate to be a modern reworked champion.
Yi's rework was good, low-scope and got rid of that toxic as fuck AP Yi that had 0 interaction.
All-in-all Riot has actually been really good with reworks. Their previous two have been bad, with overzealous changes that entirely change the way a champion flows in game. (Karma included, she just simply wasn't chronological with Skarner/Cass)
Simply put, Riot NEEDS to know that the current "radical redesign" is not something the community is looking for. They cannot make an essentially new champion, and rehash the name/lore/character. If they want to try a late-game-hyper-carry-machine-gun-mage (pewpew pewpew) then they should do it on a NEW kit, not an existing kit on an OLD mage.
We should speak out and we should be honest, Riot doesn't need sugarcoated feedback because that does nothing for anyone except makes them feel good. And Cass mains aren't in the business of making Stashu feel good right now, because in their minds, their is NOTHING to feel good about with the rework.
