Do you feel like a summoner?

LoL is one of the few games that strikes a weird balance between playing your character and sitting behind a monitor. What I mean is that the game actually recognizes you as yourself, a summoner, not the champion, but a someone just controlling a character. I think this is pretty need and engaging, at least that's what I thought when I first started playing three and a half years ago.

Nowadays I just feel like I'm playing a game and although it's still fun and I like the thematic of champions and all that jazz, I never really feel like a summoner anymore and I don't think I ever expressly did. Of course envisioning yourself as a champ is way cooler than fantasizing about yourself holding a crystal ball instead of a keyboard, I feel like the game is missing out on a little bit of immersion from a summoner's perspective

Don't get me wrong, I think being called by your champs name and effectively taking on that identity to the other 9 people in your game is cool and an experience you won't get in any other type of game genre and the game does call you summoner a whole lot, basically whenever you achieve something. But that dialogue has long gone stale and I don't even skim it anymore, just click it away because I know what it says. I don't want a dumbass character creator but I'd still like to feel more like a summoner, at least in-between matches. I don't know what shape this would take. I'm just typing my feelings mindlessly without any thought to the actual logistics of it because this post will probably only be seen by 3 people at most and at least two of them will disagree with me anyway. I just wanted to document the thought that I simply don't feel like a summoner.