And inherent state of damage creep brokenness isn't a 'meta'.

When the game gets so focused around one thing that the entire state of the game has to shift, there is a serious issue.

The problem right now is that it's not just something affecting the strongest type of composition or item selection. Like the ardent meta made it so that tanks, shielding/healing supports, and hyper scaling ADC's were super strong and Ardent was a near requirement. But it didn't impact every facet of the game to such a degree. Riot recognized it with ardent and nerfed accordingly, they recognized it with lethality and adjusted as well.

Right now the main culprit is UP FRONT DAMAGE. People will say it's assassins or lethality or Aftershock on tanks that broken etc. But's it's just the importance of being able to do a lot of damage NOW. It's soooo important in the game that it's edging things out and it's deceptive cuz it's like "Well tanks are good right now, assasins are good, poke is good, utility supports are pretty good, so seems like a lot of balance"

WRONG. The tanks who are doing well, are doing well because they do a lot of burst damage. Poke is good because their poke is so bursty that anything dies in 2 spells. Utility supports like Janna and Raka are no longer so rough in lane not because balance is good, but because YOU GAVE THEM DAMAGE TOO. What did you do so that auto attacking ADC's don't get edged out completely? Well we made the most reliably good Keystone give them some burst damage too! WHAT!?

Riot please, there is nothing wrong with characters who are so strong in utility that they have as much value as hard damage carries do in a game. If casual players want to cry because "It's not fun playing against a champ who is built to deny me kills, or it's not fun to play against super reliable engage/cc", nevermind the fact that the balance to these things is that these "op" kits only benefit if the teammates take advantage of your play possibly.

Congratulations RIOT, a wider variety of classes/champs are viable now than have been recently. But your game is also more broken than it probably has ever been.