Riot, You are Destroying Your Game
The basic language, clicking, destroying turrets, leveling up abilities and using them with allies to push down the enemy's nexus... spend gold to buy items to do those things better, but with these preseason changes going through everything will be so very different from what it was six years ago. You're tearing out parts of the game and putting new ones in, and you've constantly been doing it since the beginning.
Good job. Regardless of specific mechanics, what certain subsets of players would rather remain constant... despite everything, you've made a game that appeals first and foremost to people like me, who crave new experiences. Every time the game starts to get samey, you guys do something to change all of it. It's amazing. As I'm more attached to the experiences over any mechanics or overall vision... you've really made the perfect game for me. I don't regret being a veteran player since pre-S1. It's been a fun ride. (Just never do S2 again)
The game I would say has a lot of the same design veins as League, would actually be a tabletop game. Magic: The Gathering. A recent article about that game describes it as a game that breaks its own rules. It changes constantly to provide new experiences, and at its core, that's what League does for me.
