Midgame relevance or best lategame scaling: pick one!

There's been a lot of talking about crit adcs being dead now because their full build costs an additional 1000g circa.

But this was a fix to a huge problem: before this, crit adcs (aka some of the best lategame scalers) were hitting their lategame potential by midgame, and this was "game-warpingly op" (to steal a very fitting definition). You can't have forgotten that already, it was happening just a few weeks ago!

Anyway, my question is: #ADC mains: would you prefer to be relevant by midgame or to have the absolute best lategame scaling? Pick one, you can't have both!

If you prefer relevance by midgame then adc itemization needs to cost less, but you also have to give up some of your lategame power (for example by reducing the crit multiplier).

If instead you prefer your lategame scaling then the game is fine as it is (as far as it concerns adcs' power): your full build costs a lot, but if you get there then you become the gods of the game. (Btw, this one is exactly how the game was in the earliest seasons... I can still remember a time when a not-fed Tristana was useless - literally useless - for the whole midgame, then started picking up strength and only became an hypercarry in the very late game)