Why Did I (and apparently many other long-time, invested players) Get Tired of League?

I've been playing since near the end of Season 6 (just after 100th Ryze rework, before Kled) I know it's not that long a time, but I've invested countless hours into this game. I probably have 1k matches total and have gotten pretty experienced throughout this time. For most of these games, I enjoyed playing. Though I may have lost or had a troll or flamer (or flamed myself), I still played plenty more games afterward. I was, albeit hard to swallow for me, addicted. I spent money on skins and champions. I watched videos, read guides, anything to get better. I loved this game. When I began this game, I was full of vigor, anxious to play, and excited about what lay before me. 120 characters packed into a single game that each had different abilities.

When Kled came out, as the first champion I had seen a Spotlight for, I wanted him. I eventually got him and his only skin. I played him for a small amount of time, and have played him here and there, but I didn't have a MAIN. The one champ you click with. I would almost always switch champions every game. I wanted to explore them all. After about two years, I've played nearly everyone, and some many times. Throughout Season 6 and 7, I was happy with the game I invested so much time into.

Season 8 was released November of 2017. I experimented with the new runes, found some cool picks, and got even better with champions I had already played many games with. During June and July of 2018, I felt more disconnected with the game. Many of the players were playing guess what? Fortnite. With League trying to keep itself alive during the Battle Royale era, they, in my opinion, ruined the game. Many champs that had been good before were almost useless. Maokai? What happened to him? Zac? Tanks? With lethality nearly untouched for about a year, assassins were only getting stronger with items like Stormrazor, able to one-shot nearly any squishy. Some champions I saw every game. Jax. Zed. Yasuo. Vayne. Pyke. With the bi-monthly patches, League had changed too much too fast. AD champions were shoved to the top. ADCs were played less although AD.

New champions are not very appealing to me. About now, I've been playing some Ornn. He's not that bad actually. Good tank-killer, tanky, can BUY FROM LANE. He is one of the few newer champions that doesn't feel rushed or similar to other champions. Aatrox? Riven 2. Pyke? Feels like an assassin, yes, but also rushed. Zoe? Relies on one ability. Champions like Kled, Ornn, even Yasuo are better than these rushed ones with kits similar to another champion.

My last argument deals with toxicity. There's always been toxicity in my games. Even when you mute everyone, your allies might still take your farm, troll you, or enemies may annoy you with spam dancing on your corpse because you said "that was easier than i thought" followed by a "lol." Recently though, I feel there has been more toxicity. You take a kill because you're playing an early-game champion such as Twitch. You get flamed and pinged. You can't carry a game because your allies are not very good at building armor or magic resist. You get insults in the chat. I used to be able to deal with this, but now it's in every game. The same champions, the same trolling, the same toxicity. I thought change was good. Why not just stop releasing champions and instead rework more until the game is balanced, remove any texts longer than 30 characters to avoid long negative texts that add up to disaster, and apply a system for trollers.

I've left so many games Riot, please don't let League be one of them.