Alright I hear ya, I really do. When I started playing my first champion was Kog'maw. Playing the "don't die" game was my thing as well as being safe in teamfights. Back in those days though I think you rushed wriggles for better farming, it was a different time.
BUT I soon realized that my safe play was more of a hindrance than anything, my passive no-trade playstyle meant that although I didn't die, I never won lane, which may sound like the point but sometimes that's not enough. To contest their slightly ahead mid or top laner sometimes you need to win lane. In later teamfights securing my own safety meant I was sacrificing DPS for better positining and losing fights but never knowing why.
Now I'm not gonna say to 180 your playstyle, that would be foolish and mean. BUT consider modifying that playstyle to include trading and different builds. You can keep rushing those beserker greaves and farming til lategame, but while you do study your opponents moves so you can figure out a way to trade because while not losing lane is nice, winning in kills and cs can do a lot for you and your team.
One more thing that building that early AD as opposed to AS gives you is lane presence, which can be a big thing. You'd be amazed at how much cs you can secure by throwing your weight around and intimidating your opponent from contesting you, you can get your own cs while denying your opponent theirs with proper trades.
One last thing is I have to ask which champions you do this on. On Caitlyn, and Ashe I find earlier boots actually pretty good because you can poke in and out of your opponents range and zone them out. I wouldn't recommend doing this on AD scaling heavy ADCs like Graves or Lucian.
personally help me with farming better than getting early damage, not to mention that they help me escape better when facing ganks.
