I'm still confused...

It kind of sounds like Riot is trying to gauge a fish's inteligence by its ability to climb a tree.

So Riot try's to increase Jungle diversity by making it harder, which actually decreased jungle diversity.

This is like a professor saying he wants more people to pass his exam and then making a harder test.

Then they change the gold cost of all jungle items which makes it so that early ganks that are successful are even more rewarding because they can actually afford the upgrade to smite.

Again this is like a professor that wants more students to pass. However, this time he says that he will give bonus credit to anyone that answers the bonus question, but only if they are in the top 5 grades of 100 students.

Next we give an item to tanks that actually scales with tanks, none the less it is very impactful because it can be used to backdoor or split push. Then they nerf the item so it can't split push or backdoor effectivly.

This is like a PE coach giving the special ED student a head start and then in the middle of the race telling him that he needs to slow down to give the other kids a chance to catch up with him.

What gives? Does the professors want more people to be able to pass or not? Also, does the PE teacher want the special ED kid to have his chance to win or not?