"The Jungle Is Dead!" = The Phrase Repeated Every Year
My thoughts on all this:
~ Scuttle Crab should be spawning in both rivers all the time on its respawn timer. The EXP could be reverted to what it was, but could keep its other changes, so it ends up being a higher priority, but not game changing.
~ I do agree with jungle being a lot more linear and I think to fix that would be greatly reducing the respawn timers of the camps by a lot. Make it where the jungler has an ACTUAL decision to make, decide between farming or ganking, not clear every camp then go gank because there is nothing left to do. This also means there is more room to counter jungle since the camp is not always dead and the other jungler gets free ganks off, if there is something to kill then when the other jungler goes to gank he will have nothing in his jungle to farm because they got snatched, making ganking a risk and reward mechanic rather than a thing to do after all the camps are killed.
My favourite time was when the spirit jungle items were around, it opened up the largest champion diversity and the camps had the low respawn timers, making it where you can choose who you want to play in the jungle and had to make real choices between jungling and ganking. I believe this was either season 3 or season 4 jungle, I cannot remember exactly when it was, but that was the spirit items for the jungle items with the item that had health and mana back whenever you dealt damage to monsters, AD burning lizard when fully upgraded, AP item gave AP, CDR and spell vamp, tank item could have been updated to cinderhulk instead of tenacity.
I am just going on, but offering back real choice for junglers would be nice.