Does anyone else think that laning sucks right now?

Hear me out. I feel like all these changes are creating a laning environment that is making lane gameplay feel awkward, clunky, inconsistant, and uncomfortable, particularly with regards to last hitting.

First, we are missing some damage from the absent masteries. Also, depending on your champion, you may be missing some attack speed that smooths out attack animations. (A personal beef, that poppy auto attack animation is rather awful...)

Next you have the dynamic minion stats. It may not affect the damage that YOU do to the minions, however if you are anticipating a certain amount of damage from your minions and the level advantage has changed, you may find yourself missing last hits you normally would be getting. Add in the strange pathing, and you have a recipe for some clunky gameplay.

Also, experience seems fucked. I don't know if they changed minion experience, i couldn't find it, but I know they changed kill experience. For some reason it seems to be creating a situation where you lose out a lot on exp if you spend even a tad bit time out of lane, even to back. A natural effect of the game, but it feels much more than before, which is irritating.

As someone who has consistently gotten high farm in the past and focused on strong laning mechanics, this is all really frustrating and is making the game feel very clunky at the moment. I find myself checking my farm on occasion and thinking "I only have THAT much?". Now, you can say "just get better at last hitting and predicting.", but to be fair the dynamic minion scaling makes it hard to stay consistent if you're not constantly comparing exp of both teams.

Overall, I feel like this has slowed the game down in all the wrong places. Laning feels like a clunky, inconsistant, and drug out phase of the game, which is then suddenly met with the still speedy mid game. Comebacks also feel even harder now with the overbearing minion scaling and strange exp changes.

Does anyone else feel the same way? I honestly feel like the game "felt" better and smoother before. Some of these changes seem to have a goal in mind, but they feel like they are going in a completely random direction.