Petition: Disabling Champions in game for lore is "Strictly" a Bad Thing

For those that don't want to read, TL:DR is at the bottom.

Now, Riot has done a lot of things right with this update, although as they themselves have stated there is much more to be done in terms of lore. The story itself was solid. The champion updates were helpful. The concept of releasing a champion during a story event, then having the story fundamentally change the character and require a whole new skin to represent the lore progression, while everyone that owns him gets the Classic skin 'and' the new skin, is great.

Actual disabling a champion from the game because of the lore is not.

There was no reason to disable the champion for this event. One solution is to release Spooky Gangplank to everyone, as China did. Another solution is to perhaps put a gray tint on GP in all games, and have the shopkeep react with surprise that he is there. Perhaps make it so that the updates are timed such that the unveiling of New Gangplank Skin actually coincides with when he hits the rift, so that there isn't a days-long length of time when the GP new skin is out and he is pronounced alive, but players 'still' can't play him.

Riot should make sure that when they create this interaction between the player base and the game and the lore, it is always adding something (the player contest that resulted in the creation of the Ionian Boots), not subtracting (removing GP for extended time). There are many ways to have players interact with the game and the lore. There is absolutely no reason or need for Riot to ever take away from the player experience to do so.

Full disclosure, I have rarely if ever played Gangplank before. I played him a couple times after the rework, and in my very first ARAM, but that's mostly it. But I completely sympathize with GP players who may feel locked out of the experience, and feel like there are creative solutions to accomplish this goal without doing this harm.

TL;DR The sole purpose of this petition is to make it clear that whatever good the surrounding events of the Bilgewater Event, the actual disabling of gangplank from the game had entirely nothing to do with it. Riot should not walk away from the update thinking that the disabling of a champion in any way had any positive effects. This could have happened in the same way without the disabling, and everything would be appreciably better for it.

Thank you for your time.