The game doesn't feel rewarding anymore

I started playing league of legends a little less than 2 years ago. I met a girl and she was into the game, I quit drinking alcohol and gambling so I had to do something to keep my mind off things and LOL caught my eye. The game caught me by suprise, I really loved the fact that there are so many different approaches to the game and I started playing.. a lot!

I started as support only and couldn't get out of bronze in S4, in S5 however I started climbing rapidly and excelled from bronze to gold 3. It was rewarding and I was happy about my personal growth in this game. Along the way the girl I met became my girlfriend and she got pregnant. It was an accident but a very pleasent one because we now have an 8 month old baby girl which we love endlessly.

But things have changed for me. S6 doesn't seem to be rewarding anymore, it feels like I can't climb anymore and things are random. I managed to climb out of silver, where I was placed after my placement matches but now I am deadstuk in Gold 5. I've been to G3 and went up and down, but right now I am not sure if it's even worth to keep playing LOL.

Dynamic Que is one of the main reasons for this and especially playing solo is just aweful. Whenever I play with a group of 3 I see to win about 80% of the games even though I have mixed groups(so I am not getting boosted), but when I play solo it's nothing short of a throw of the dice. The amount of trolls seems so high, the amount of mixed MMR players is off the charts. Last season you had the occasional smurf in your or the enemy team, but this season it seems that every game has either a complete moron or some kind of god in one of either teams. I just feel like I can't influence the game enough anymore.

I am trying to learn, to play better, I am watching videos and replays, I look up stratgies, but I don't seem to be able to get out of this elo. The funny thing is though, that when I play normals with plat/diamond friends, I don't have any trouble with the game, I can still win games, but why can't I get out of my own elo? It's just not rewarding anymore and that is the problem I am having right now. I feel like I am just playing the game, to play the game, but without the joy I had and without the reward I had. To make matters worse Riot keeps adding things that do give you some kind of false reward feeling like level 7 mastery and hextech loot crates, but it's only making matters worse.

I'm at a point where I'm wondering if it's even possible to grow any further in this game? I can make better decisions in game, I can be faster, but at this point even if I am just a little better I will make a difference in just a couple of games, I will carry just some games, and a minor edge at this point with the numbers against us, is just not enough. It's either carry or go home right now and it shouldn't be.

And then there are the constant changes to the game. Just when you think you have mastered something and excel at it, the game turns 180 around and you have to start over. Ofcourse you've got your basics, but when a friend of mine who got to diamond 3 by playing over 3000 Akali games, got hit by the big Akali nerf, he didn't start playing another champion just to keep it going, no.. he quit.

I guess I should go back to drinking alcohol and gambling, at least I'll have fun again and maybe I'll make some money instead of wasting it on this fake reward stupidity.