Riot's Banning of Custom Skins: How Does this Affect the Community?

https://www.lolriotpls.com/2016/10/leagueoflegends/riot-may-be-stopping-people-using-custom-skins/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTRXuKbeDI4&feature=youtu.be

It has come to my attention that Riot has made plans to change their game's files in order to allow detection of 3rd party skins, better known as custom skins. Anyone using any custom skins is likely to be banned for using 3rd party systems.

It doesn't effect me personally, but I can imagine how it could effect anything from a common player to top-name League players on youtube. It seems like it restricts creativity among the community and unfairly targets the small custom skin creating community for no really significant reason. I really don't believe that too many custom skins cause real balance issues or give them an edge (most probably do the opposite tbh with bad hitboxes) but would it be hard to ban those few skins. Do those few skins really create a large balance issue to ban out all custom skins?

As a quote from Lomar, a rioter (Note this is 2012)

"In our case, we've made a decision that custom skins/splashes aren't necessarily hurting the business. Our business is in making our players happy - the ability to custom stuff is likely what keeps certain people interested in our game, and acts as a force multiplier for other people. From that perspective, banning people is incredibly stupid. We're forcing people out of our game, and lessening the experience of other players, for no real clear benefit.

That said, it's important that we reserve our rights to defend the IP here. There may be certain custom skins (Nazi Teemo!) that we may have a legitimate problem with. And there are other modifications (Zoom hack!) that are a certifiable balance issue and need to be prevented. Custom creation will always be at your own risk - updates may break functionality, etc. But we also aren't going to just toss out arbitrary bans. It's not in our players' interests, and so it's definitely not in ours."

(taken from comment section in http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/gameplay-balance/rQypadRU-riots-policy-on-custom-skins)

I understand that the custom skin community isn't a large part of the league community as a whole, but hopefully others agree that this restriction of creativity shouldn't be allowed even if it only effects a small portion of the league community.

Thoughts?