When is RIot going to address the AFK epidemic??

I honestly do not care how many times this question is asked or how many times a thread is repeated. This topic should honestly be at the top of the discussion every day all day until the problem is fixed.

Why is it that a game even STARTS when players do not even CONNECT to the game in the first place? I'm not talking about 10 minutes into a game and then someone goes afk ( which is also a HUGE problem). I'm talking about at the very beginning when it is CLEAR that a player is AFK by either not connecting or purchasing an item or moves out of base.

If someone wants to argue that reducing the loss of LP would be unbalanced and taken advantage of fine, but then there needs to be a system put in place especially in RANKED games where the game is stopped and ended. There should be no reason what so ever that a game even starts with an afk therefore creating a loss, reduction of LP, and waste of time.