A sudden decrease in character lore

I know there are many others who have discussed the lore changes on here, many are more knowledgeable of the characters they are discussing than perhaps I am. But I am not going to be rehashing the same arguments, points of view or claims. I want to talk about something that has crept up with all of the recent changes. The extreme drop in quality lore. Now, I am not claiming the current lore team are poor at their job. I am just curious as to why the sudden shift has occurred.

Ok, so lets take a look at the three most recent champions, Braum, Gnar and Azir.

Braum Braum has interesting and engaging lore, told in the form of a story from grandmother to grandchild. It is told as a a bedtime story, a tale of Braums heroic deeds, and it is a genuinely interesting read. In terms of statistics, it has 709 words.

Gnar Gnar's lore, told from Rengar's point of view is more vague as to Gnar's background and history. It is a story of an encounter, not really something that I would consider lore for a character, though it is interesting and the the way it is written is appealing. On the wikia, there is a "short bio" tab, which does address the vagueness of the encounter described in the "lore" tab. Though it is short and doesn't make me interested in the character 'Gnar' himself. Gnar's lore (including the short bio) comes to a total of 588 words.

Azir Azir's lore is an interesting look into the history of the character, addressing a specific event which led to his disappearance. While it is structured better than Gnar's lore, I do feel confused at the content. If he was "obliterated in an instant" how did he survive. I am sure this will be answered later but I found it odd. Azir's lore has a total of 231 words (wikia).

Now, as you can see there is a trend in the length of the lore writings of these recent champions ending with an underwhelming 231 words of lore for Azir, an emperor of Shurima which Riot seem to be basing a lot of upcoming content around (Azir: Emperor of Shurima, Ascension game mode, shurima kha'zix skin, lore changes for characters with Shurima at their core). Personally, if the lore team cannot seem to garner more than 231 words for a character of such importance to a region which is being brought to the forefront of League of Legends, then I cannot foresee future lore being developed with the same depth as the past.

Another one of my main gripes with the lore is that in client, for whatever reason, Riot has decided to only use an excerpt of Azir's lore, a mere 46 words of lore. 46. Now, I would like to think this would be changed, but it just looks to me like they are dumbing down the lore of other champions into cut-down versions of their lore. Examples of these can be found below.

• Ezreal had 273 words worth of lore replaced by a watered down version with 75 words.
• Cassiopeia had 287 words of old lore before the lore changes. Now she is left with a pitiful 65 words.
• Nasus had 317 words of lore, though in client it has been cut down to a mere 64 words.
• Renekton had 313 words of lore, though this has been drastically cut to 53 words.
• Xerath had 302 words of lore. Though on the client it has been reduced to 52 words.

If the team are going to tl;dr the lore of all the characters into a <75 word paragraph, then that can hardly be advertised as lore under the "Lore" tab in client. It is a cut down, simplified and brief version of the characters lore. If anything it is a description and should be labeled as such. If not, then the full lore should be displayed. Perhaps someone can tell me why they seem to be cutting the lore apart into little chunks, because the answer to that question eludes my grasp.

Answers on a postcard.