7.4 Mastery Nerfs wasn't even necessary if only the Lethality buffs never made it to 7.3

I get that everyone is complaining about how snowbally the matches are, but the state of the game right now feels so sluggish and never rewards people who play well.

Especially nerfs to Precision/Meditation/Merciless and Double Edge Sword. Right now it's harder to play early game champions whom rely on laning/roaming phase to have a good mid game and late game. For a patch that revolved around AD champions abusing lethality because the balance team decided to overtune the trinity lethality items, the rest of the classes suffered as well.

As of patch 7.4, playing mages at mid lane just feels so boring, especially when you have AP/AD assassins rampant. Before the nerfs even came around, as much as the game ended too quickly, teams that were falling behind always had a chance to catch up if they coordinated their strategy. Having a lead didn't guarantee you'll win your matches, considering that the scale will tip to the enemy team's favor if your team made mistakes. That is good, it meant there was little room for error, and that it really rewarded people who played their games well. On the other hand, it also punished players who made mistakes.

Patch 7.4 is horrible in that the mastery nerfs hit almost everyone, even the champions whom were at a focal point of balance. Right now, the changes just mean that those were bad before are now worse, and those whom were considered balance are now below the focal point of balance. Whilst those whom were crazy OP are just reduced to a level where they are reasonably strong. At the end of the day, people are still building lethality items.

Even if the idea was to hit every single class and made it so everyone had an equal chance, it feels like Rito just didn't think this through. At best, it seems like they took the easy way out.

Feel free to disagree, but I think the nerfs weren't reasonable to begin because it's primary intention was to address lethality champions firsthand and the rest later.