Hunter's Machete

Does anyone else feel the change to Hunter's Machete where you NEED to have smite equipped in order to purchase it does more harm than good? I've been running into a lot of junglers that for one reason or another forget to equip smite before the game locks and loads. It can be an honest mistake or an absent minded one you just weren't paying attention to catch in time, and that's fine--mistakes happen. Then they get in game and go "OOPS forgot smite XD"

You can argue that it SHOULDN'T happen which i would agree with but in the event that it does, forbidding them from at the very least still being able to pick up the machete just makes life even harder for them and their team. Without the extra damage and sustain from the Machete+ they fall behind from not being able farm the jungle safer and longer. Their ganks aren't as effective as they should be because they had to take extra trips back to base to regen which wastes more time. It's still possible to salvage a game that way, but it's difficult.

I just think WHEN this mistake occurs of forgetting smite, at the very least they should still be able to purchase the machete. Shouldn't they?