Should we still have faith in Riot?
Browsing through the most active and upvoted threads on the boards, a trend is beginning to emerge of players pointing out oversights, mistakes, and obviously wrong things Riot is doing to item choice, champ balance, and champion reworks. I have personally participated in the argument that the Soraka rewrork is based on false premises and violates Riot's claim that they will not use reworks to dictate how we play our champions (in this case, using the rework to force Soraka out of solo lanes). A common thread I have observed in these growing number of posts is that Riot refuses to listen to the player base, and defends their missteps as if they were the right thing to do for the health and longevity of the game. So, as the title says, should we, the players, still have faith in Riot Games to do what is best for the players and the game?
I, of course, answer no. The way things are going, I see the champions becoming increasingly homogenized, and Riot has adopted the attitude that they made it so it is good, and will admit no mistakes, even when they are obvious, so correcting them is not even a possibility.
P.S. I don't count the complaint threads that beg for nerfs to any champion after the player has lost a few games to him/her. This, in my opinion, is part of the problem. A champion is not in need of nerfs because someone played it well. What is lacking in this situation is the ability of the player asking for nerfs to learn to play against that champion. The alternative, to nerf or rework, is to punish players for being good at a champion.
Edit: here is a poll thread, made by DaejinTye, on the subject for anyone who wishes to participate: http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/gameplay-balance/aek2icnM-poll-should-we-have-faith-in-riot. Also, some responses focus solely on my issue with the Soraka rework, but this is merely the one that most annoyed me. Yasuo, Lucian, and Kha'zix, all get hit repeatedly, and Cassiopeia got significantly weakened as well, it seems (though I don't own her, so I can't say from experience), and there are things like this http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/story-art/xPwbgUIX-why-does-kayle-have-boob-armor or this http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/gameplay-balance/uQy6qIRl-the-real-reason-well-never-see-east-cost-servers. Meanwhile, Riot puts out custom game modes with increasing frequency, as if to distract from how they are running LoL into the ground.
