So did riot just give up on clash and RGM?

They did testing in oceania right? And the last time they unveiled it to everyone they dropped the ball, hard. Riot has all these additional game modes and ideas in the form of blitz, TT, Ascension, etc.. but they don't do anything with them. I know they said they came to the conclusion that urf caused and influx and then exodus of players but they never gave a reason for why the other weekly random game modes vanished.

I remember they did nothing but give us poro-king for a few weeks/months straight in the beginning of the year and then they just turned it off. The only thing since then was the odyssey event which lets be frank was riddled with issues of its own.

I haven't heard anything about clash in a while and i fear its just going to get swept under the rug like all the others. Giving the player base something else to delve into with a group would give us a competitive scene that isnt flex which mind you No one takes seriously. Its odd how riot focuses on changes in order to keep the game "fresh" but they don't allocate resources to keeping separate game modes up to give people a place to unwind. But there isnt one really outside of aram which still has that issue of people having profiles dedicated to that game mode, unless you are one of those players who goes into ranked games with zero intentions of taking anything seriously then in that case you have your bases covered since you are there just to wasted other peoples time.

If there were designated "for fun" game modes and other modes that were timed competitive events like clash i can certainty see players like myself feeling less burned out on the game and having something to look forward to when playing the game.