What is this board's opinion on the current top lane meta?

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In the light of all the hashinshin posts on r/leagueoflegends sub, I would like to know this board's opinion on the current top lane meta.

 

Context and tl;dr: I am a salty silver-gold Darius/Jax player. I'm tired of having to play tanks or cheese ranged champions just to be able to do anything as a top laner. In my opinion, top is currently the most stale and most useless role out of the 5. As a result I've decided to quit playing top until they fix this meta.

 

I'm a mid/top main who is tired of continually getting shit on by Teemo/Gnar/Kennen; I have NEVER won lane against them if I am not playing a ranged champion myself. After matchups like Jax vs. Teemo, Ornn vs. Teemo, Darius vs. Jayce, etc., I can't take it anymore. I'm at the point where I would rather straight-up not go to lane and jungle than have to lane melee vs. ranged again. The only champions that I have even had a chance of holding lane are Ornn, Maokai, and Cho'Gath, and even then you're forced to afk at your tower 24/7 and hope your team doesn't shit the bed so you can scale. It's the most non-interactive gameplay I have ever experienced in 5 years of playing League of Legends.

But when I don't want to play a tank or I need to win lane to carry my team, what the fuck am I supposed to do? I'm not that good at Teemo and Jayce, so I've resorted to taking mages top like Vladimir, Malzahar, Azir, Viktor, and Syndra, and I found that they have better performance against range than actual top laners like Darius/Camille. Only by playing a cheese champion and playing solely to win lane do I have a chance to do anything against range.

The issue with bruisers is that were balanced around Fervor. Now that it's gone they're left with nerfed base stats/damage/survivability and no usable keystone. They literally have no windows to punish tanks or kill carries now. They don't beat them in laning phase 1v1, mid game skirmishes, or late game teamfights. They're just shit at all stages of the game.

This is the worst state top has been in since Sunfire IBG SV meta IMO. It feels like if you don’t play a scaling tank like Ornn/Maokai/Shen or a ranged lane bully like Teemo/Jayce/Gnar you just straight up auto lose. It’s so fucking stupid. My most played top laners are Darius and Jax and they’re pretty much unplayable right now. Look at the past competitive metas. The moment top lane sucks, champions like Jayce, Gnar, and Kennen make it completely unfun and unfair. Jayce is an especially bad factor in my opinion because there's basically no counterplay to how abusive he is in this current meta. I'm absolutely done with top lane until they fix these issues.

Does anyone else share this sentiment? If you agree, what are your thoughts on the current top lane meta? If you disagree, why don't you think it's as bad as people say it is?