Am I the only one who hates CS bounties?

Oh, I actually read the post too quickly. I looked up "cs bounty" and didn't even know that was the thing. Now I see it more as a clunky way to fix their shitty matchmaking. If the matchmaking was good, all players would be of roughly the same skill level, and so it would simply be impossible for one player to get an excessive CS lead. But since the matchmaking is notoriously awful, they're "fixing" it by giving a little bonus to the losing team.

So yeah, I guess why it can be viewed at "punishing" the good players, but I think that anything that can ensure the game is not over until the very last minute is welcome. Think about it this way: if you know you built such a large CS lead that the enemy team now can't catch up to you, where is the challenge ? How is it fun to simply wait until the enemy FF since they now can't ever hope to get enough gold to match your farm ?

Personally I like it when I feel that the outcome of the game can change at any time, and is not just determined by the first 5 minutes.

However, I completely get your point about punishing "power farming" by people who are behind. But when I looked up "cs bounties" I've seen some patch notes where Riot explains they actually reduced them when the person who is power farming is behind, so it shouldn't be an issue. Or perhaps the bounty could take into account how much gold a person has accumulated so far ? And thus, if someone who is behind is power farming, it means they hadn't accumulated much gold up to this point, and so the system would make it so that their CS bounty would be much lower.