Why are people surprised that this patch was awful?
Riot has historically been terrible at balancing. How is this news to anyone who's been playing for any decent amount of time? The only difference now is that the patch is bigger so they have more to mess up. When I saw the new runes, my first thought was not "Gosh, I can't wait to try these new features." It was "They're going to screw this up." And they did. What a surprise.