nah that was just an excuse, nobody cared about balance on dominion because it didnt exsist in the same sense it does on SR or even 3v3 for that matter where pantheon is always god tier do to his kit and ult, riot just didnt want to take away from SR because its the bread n butter that makes kids buy skins, it was a flawed logic because i have like 137 skins on this account alone.
riot got big telling kids to want to be pro in LCS, and alot of the kids wanted to live that dream, but yes we all miss dominion but atleast they gave us solo Q 3v3 ranked.