Earning Champions

I know theres like 10 million issues with preseason and the new Blue Essence Merge, but the one that bothers me the most at the moment is the leveling up champion capsules. I get that the randomness of drops is supposed to be exciting when you get 5 champions, but I HATE the inconsistency. Unless each capsule has a set worth to it, and you can get any combination of champs that add up to that? But I don't think that is the case. Its very frustrating because (through a lot of games recently) I'm already lvl 35 but every capsule I've opened except 1 has only had one champion in it. VS my friend who's gotten 3 capsules all with 5 champion shards.

I know Riot claims we can earn champions "just as fast" as before, but I think thats based off of the average of what a capsule contains. I dunno. With all the games I've played I'd definitely have enough to buy a new champ, but I don't even want to DE the shards I have because of how much it costs to lvl up champion mastery/purchase new champions. I know champion cost is unchanged but you have to open hella capsules or get hella lucky to get the champions you ACTUALLY WANT.