Is Riot actively working to make this game more appealing to potential investors?

I suppose the question I'm asking is really this: Is Riot trying to make a more profitable game, or a more fun game?

In recent times I've come to the conclusion that if you make a more fun game, it will naturally become more profitable because more people will want to play it for longer, but if you focus first on making a more profitable game, sometimes the solutions to that goal can result in a less-fun game.

The actual net profit from both approaches is likely to be very similar, with the main difference being that the profit-seeking path results in larger profits over the short term, while the fun-seeking path results in smaller short-term gains, but a more secure future for the game.

I was reading something about the reasoning behind Zenimax pushing so much blatantly predatory monetization in it's recent titles being due to it's attempts to seem more appealing to investors (as was outlined in a leaked internal communication).