Riot should make it so if you don't take smite you just can't enter the jungle
If I forget smite I'll have much less sustain, a slower clear and be very bad at contesting objectives -- fair enough. But it still needs to be more severe I think. Which is why I'm glad if I'm ever able to survive clearing a camp I'll also go oom because I have no access to decent early game mana regen -- well I guess I can just back more often and gank less early game. But it would really be nice if I could also get half as much exp from the camps as well so a full clear at level 1 will juuust get me to level 3. Fantastic! Now I can feel confident knowing that if I ever forget smite I can have 0 impact in the early game and only hope every lane massively snowballs to be able to end by mid game so we don't autolose when we're unable to contest any big objectives.