Okay, so mastery means nothing.

That's what I always hear. "Mastery doesn't mean skill, it just means someone plays a champ a lot."

If that's the case, doesn't it seem kind of pointless? It'd be better to just list hours played, rather than giving people the false impression that someone is good with a champion. I'm Master 6 with Support Nasus but that apparently means nothing. That teammate top who's playing Mastery 7 with Darius, he might actually be a horrible Darius, but we're expecting him to carry us and some of our team is feeling lazy because of it. The Rengar on the other team who keeps flashing his mastery emote, he's probably garbage. Just bluffing us. But it still intimidates some of us. Worse yet, our Lee Sin is doing it and all it's doing is wasting time that could be used not getting caught by skillshots.

Granted, most of that paragraph is sarcasm, but honestly. If mastery is nothing more than time played, why not just record time played? It seems to me it'd be a lot less prone to create division than this misleading mastery system.