On Supports and Why Riot Hates Them: A Complaint

Dear Developers of League of Legends: I am being actively punished for playing support. In the attempt to quell funneling strategies (which I am completely on-board with), Riot has coincidentally and decidedly nerfed supports into the ground. The gold reduction strategy is fantastic for stopping people from getting too much money at every stage in the game. The problem is that it means that supports can either:

1. focus solely on trading, which is a great way to get called a feeder if your lane goes poorly, surrendering all pressure if your ADC can't back you up, or (if the trading and poking goes well) get a proportionately small amount of gold
2. farm, but only when somebody else is nearby and not too much, lest you lose the ability to gain any gold from minion kills
3. not get a sight stone, thus lose a pretty big chunk of your usefulness to the team The reason I limit the options to these is that I cannot farm to get gold, or else I start to get diminishing returns for killing minions, which is fine and all, but not when it's 32 minutes into the game and I need to catch up to my team, so I go farm a wave and get the value of picking a Cheeto off the floor when I'm starving. If I can't get gold with my item once it reaches level three, and I can't farm at that point without getting 8 gold per cannon kill, then how am I supposed to get gold? This is especially problematic when I play tank supports because I'm expected to buy items like warmogs, randuins, abyssal mask, spirit visage, thornmail, frozen heart, and warmogs armor (to mention a few) on the effective budget of three gold, a paperclip, and some pocket lint. I'm not asking to remove the funneling prevention technique, I'm just asking that you don't strangle the supports in the process. Maybe bring back buyable green wards or adapt the yellow trinket after the early game to lessen the need for a dedicated sacrificial goat to starve, or (and this would be greatly preferred) let the gold income items do what they were designed to do, make supports not have to steal farm. TL;DR: If I can no longer gain gold from a support item, then why in Nagakabouros' name does it still reduce the gold that I can get from other sources? Regards from a disgruntled support player, -BonLeBoneBone