Question to balance team: Why do you hesitate to nerf new items or item reworks?

I'm going to say it in a polite and in a way that encourages discussion on the matter. Because it does concern me as a player. For one I want to say first I think Riot balance team has over all done a pretty job considering how hard it can be to balance this game.

That said, every season in the early stages there are very obvious problematic, champions and items because so much gets introduced. Last year we had graves being a broken piece of shit (hell hes still too strong), high ad on a flat armor pen items were clearly not a good idea, amongst other things. Strength of the Ages started being taken by almost everyone relatively early into the season and was never addressed until now.

My question is why? why do you guys wait so long to take action when its clear you aren't blind like the rest of us. You ultimately come to the same conclusion as the majority more often than not.

This season we have two obviously problematic things that I hope we already have plans to address in some way and soon rather than waiting. Courage of the Colossus is clearly broken right now and so is Redemption. Yet I do not see any potential changes yet on PBE? are you still trying to assess the situation? or are you going to let these two things be op all year like we had last year with ghostblade and flat armor pen/high ad items as well as strength of the ages.