Has game balance ever felt this bad throughout a whole season?

Overall the balance team has accomplished nothing positive this season and that really upsets me. When youtubers, redditers, streamers, well known veteran community members like Scarra etc, the boards and players just in general all are upset it is a clear sign that the current game dev direction isn't working.

Its like they stopped trying to fix anything this season months ago and said to eachother that this season is broken beyond repair and focus their complete attention to next preseason to not interfere with pro play. It is mind boggling people are forgetting how bad season 7 was because of how bad season 8 is. Every patch you hope they fix something, you hope next patch becomes better, then you tell yourself maybe next patch, then next patch, then next patch and before you know the season is over and it only got progressively worse and you want to uninstall and never look back but you really love the game.

Nothing has been fixed this season. It took them 6 months to tone down the damage from runepage after massive outcry from the community. Also Instead they added new busted champs like Akali, Irelia, Aatrox rework, Zoe and Pyke. Really the pinnacle of game balance. Then There is a full list of champs that are in dier need for nerfs like Kasai, Graves, Jax and so many others it has to be something in common. On top of this are Darius, Lucien, Kha and Pyke getting buffed next patch for reasons even the pro''s don't understand. Pro's are risk averse so it will only get them to either ban them or play super more safe than they already play afraid 1 misstep will mean an instoppable snowball for the enemy team.

We need someone like Morello back in the balance team who starts nerfing the damage out of the game. Does anyone remember tank patch 8.16? Nautilus, Amumu, Leona, Tham and I am sure there were some others but I don't even fucking remember them because the buffs/changes were a joke and I don't see any of these champs getting picked whatsover or building tank. They announced it like something big and instead Tank patch has become a meme nobody even remembers. The only tanks being played are Allistar and Cho Gath and they are busted. Allistar is an unkillable cc bot and Cho can build full tank while indefinitely scaling because he doesn't lose feast stacks any more while dealing hp% damage with point and click 1k true damage ult.

I am sorry but the balance team really needs to be evaluated after this season. Not just the people and their visions and understanding of the game, also the procedures on which they act and the data they collect and how they analyze it. Because it is obviously clear that there is a huge gap between the players expectations and theirs.