I fail to see the problem with feral flare being the way it is.

If you are going to devote so much of your team's resources to playing safe and with the expectation that you won't receive many gank if any, isn't that a kind of tradeoff strategically?

And even the jungler has to give up a summoner spell to take smite, so he makes a strategic tradeoff too.

I mean its not like we don't have uber safe farmers that scale. I can think of quite a few, malzahar, ziggs, renekton, caitlyn.

Whats wrong with having a safe jungler that farms to be an influence? Everybody else does it. Is it just boring to watch?

Maybe thats the problem with letting the balance of the game be dictated by what is entertaining to watch rather than what is interesting to play.