While I commend Riot for finally making an actual move towards making life easier for newer players, I must also in turn reprimand them for taking so long to do this (Years...). And in all honesty, slashing the virtual prices on virtual product doesn't take a degree in rock-surgery to do. Literally anyone at Rito could have done this in an afternoon.
There are still a staggering amount of improvements needing to be done in order to make new player's experience much better. Introduction games. Runes (still). etc...
Improving the experience of the new player is only a drop in the bucket of the massive amount of updates and game improvements the player-base has been calling out for years that Riot has systematically ignored.