Why does Riot give small-scale reworks to those who barely need it while ignoring the ones that do?

First, let me say that I neither work for Riot nor know what their thought processes are. This is a theory to address the question in the title.

Recently, there has been some controversy over why Ahri has gotten some special attention while others suffer. In the past, as well, there have been complaints of certain champions being constantly glanced over (Mordekaiser, Skarner, etc.). People have often chalked this up to Riot being incompetent, and maybe they're right. However, allow me to offer up a different possibility.

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#DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT HAVE THE INTENTION OF DEFENDING RIOT IN THIS POST. I AM ONLY TELLING YOU ALL AN ALTERNATIVE VIEWPOINT THAT OCCURED TO ME RECENTLY. ALL I ASK IS THAT YOU CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING.

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tl;dr - They are giving champions who don't reworks as badly theirs first so that they're out of the way when the big problems roll around.

Allow me to explain: Certain champions need reworks very badly (again, Mordekaiser, Skarner, etc.), and this means that they have a lot of problems. If they have a lot of problems, that means they will need a lot of time and dedication to rework.

Then you have champions who don't need a rework as badly, but still need some work (Volibear, pre-rework Irelia, etc.). If they don't need it as badly, that should mean that it won't take as long, nor take as much effort to rework them.

Now let me ask you this: Why would we put in so much time to solve this huge problem when we could get the smaller problems out of the way and thus have fewer problems quicker? Since it's so clearly difficult to solve these problems, why wouldn't the rework team continue to be productive by cranking out champions that are easier to fix? By putting off the bigger ones, they've managed to get through quite a few smaller ones (Irelia, Swain, Evelynn, etc.).

It's not so much that they're ignoring the champions that need it more, but rather that, in order to be productive, they are dealing with the smaller ones first. Obviously, there's some flawed logic here; what about champs like Yorick, Galio, and Urgot? Well, for them they were able to find a solid direction when they were going over the list of champs that need reworking (Reav3 actually posted the current list: https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/story-art/Q30wxkKg-new-roadmap-reav3-can-you-give-us-an-update-on-the-tier-1-vgu-list-you-mentioned-one-year-ago?show=flat&comment=0001 ). This of course made things immeasurably easier (at least I imagine it would), bumping them down to the difficulty of the lower-priority champs. However, this direction is of course far more difficult to find with these high-priority champs, which is what makes them high-priotity (I would think).

Is this the answer to your question? I don't know.

Is my logic flawless? Probably not (feel free to point out discrepencies).

Is this the answer that I believe? Not necessarily.

Are you getting sick of me asking questions and then answering myself? Yeah, I'll stop ^_^"

Anyway, this is just a theory of mine that I thought I'd share. Feel free to believe what you want. Please comment what you think below!