Champion reworks are going too far

There, I said it. The current trend of completely removing champions and replacing them with a new champion. Sure they'll leave in one thing that Riot considers to be 'iconic' (appearantly was all about health stacking), but It's nothing more than a memento to an older champion.

I've been playing since season 2 and call me a relic or anything, but I enjoyed playing . I didn't play them a lot because they were considered bad for good reasons but they were unique champions nonetheless which in my opinion could be fixed by tweaking their numbers. I can still enjoy their new counterparts but not without remembering that I'll never do crazy lifesteal builds with Sion or doing the huladance wih Karma ever again. Either way I could get over it, albeit with some difficulties.

But now that there's talk about a Gangplank rework it's the first time i'm actually genuinely afraid. I've been playing GP as long as I can remember, but nowadays everytime I pick him I think for a moment that eventually the same GP won't be there anymore. And it's a horrible feeling I tell you. I know it might just be a veigar level rework (i'd still play GP even if he was underpowered) but Riot has shown that it's willing to completely overhaul a champion and the fact that I don't how far Riot is willing to with GP is what makes me so nervous.

All this made me wonder why nobody is opposing the way Riot is handling these reworks. Sure I see threads complaining about certain reworks and how they could be done better but never about the fundamental concept that Riot is willing to remove champions from the game if they conisder them outdated, toxic or whatever it is. I think people should consider that these reworks might not stop at GP or Poppy, but that in the future a lot more champions will find themselves under the chopping block. Call me overly negative but I can already see in a year or maybe 2 getting reworked for being outdated, being replaced for toxic gameplay and being overhauled for the heck of it because nobody plays him. (just some examples I have no idea how Riot works)

I understand that Riot has every right to alter the game however they like. However LoL has a huge playerbase that keeps growing and the playerbase gets older and more attached to the game as well. At this point even the most unpopular champions have their fanbases. I think that Riot should have more consideration to these sentiments to 'outdated' and underplayed champions when it comes to reworks.