What's A Balanced Release?

Is anyone else at least mildly upset that champion releases always follow the same pattern of [Announcement]>[Ban them or you lose]>[Nerf]>[Nerf]>[Nerf]>[Nerf]>[Unplayable in meta]>[Okay maybe you can have a buff now]>[Jk lol]>[Still kinda lame unless you're really good]

I just really would like to have a champion release that didn't make me feel like if neither team banned [Champion] and my team didn't first pick them that was the game right there in champ select

Things like this are why Yasuo still has grudge bans in almost every low-elo game