Why the lore is failing

I've been a fan of Lol for...roughly 3-4 years now. I started really playing around Draven's release, and I remember one of the first champs I ever tried out was Skarner. I wasn't very good with him of course, but I kept playing him until the free week ran out and I had to pick another champ. It's been sometime now since then, but I still remember what made me want to play him.

His story. Everything about champions story tugged at my heart, made me actually feel emotion for what this champion has been through. He stood among the strongest of his kind, alone in a world frightened by him and full of fury for what had happened to his people. Every line of dialogue he had lent me the feelings of a great and powerful beast, full of anger as well as sorrow for the state of the world around him. What I saw was a creature struggling to contain his emotions while dealing with a world that had long passed him, and forgotten of his kind. Now he stood alone, working with the creatures who'd caused what befell his kind. Yet he didn't bear ill will toward them, recognizing that they worked to right the wrongs of the past, and willing to bottle up his emotions to aid them.

As time went on though...Things had to change, and the lore for the crystal scar got changed. What we wound up with was...insulting.

'Skarner, the crystalline guardian, defends the entrance to a realm deep beneath the Shuriman wastes. The few who survive trespassing his domain describe a creature of terrifying intelligence, anger, and precision. What this merciless creature protects, no one knows. '

Now this is probably one of the biggest example of my problems with the lore as it is...but it's by no means the only one. League of legends seems like a mess, with plots that go nowhere at all besides to setup some grand adventure that never happens. Champions are left in a stagnated state, where the fate of their kind rests on their shoulders all too often..but nothing ever comes out of it. Champions are released on a monthly basis who add new threads of story...but they don't contribute at all to the overarching plot. Riot refuses to give any kind of finality to anything because they believe it would alienate players from a champion...but is it better to leave every champ in a state of "Unless frank the barber cleans the porch on time, an unknown doom beast will cover the land in chaos".

I don't understand the lore retcons in the least, except trundles...They claimed the world was too static for them to work with, but they never even attempted to work with it. They threw spent years throwing out all the things the fans loved about the story and replacing them with near identical counterparts. Riot refuses to let the lore continue on as it is, and in doing so is erasing some of the best parts of the story so they can add new champions to fit into it.

And for the life of me I don't understand why. If I found out Udyr one of my very favorite champions, had been canonically killed during the Ionian-Noxus conflict do you know what my reaction would be? I would be surprised, of course...but I'd have a new found respect for the character who gave his life for what he believed in, to defend his homeland. Udyr dying this way wouldn't have a negative impact...it would make me want to hear more of the story of how this powerful warrior had worked with all his might to defend his home, but in the end had sacrificed his life for what he believed in. And he would have come out so much stronger for it. They claim they want to tell better stories and had to retcon the lore for it...but for gods sakes are they even trying with it?

Azir is probably the only example of changed lore having an actual impact...but even then its pretty limited. Every new champion is introduced, hyped up with trailers and stories about the impending apocalypse their presence will bring, and then promptly forgotten about. It's creating a massive amount of quantity over quality, and adding very little to the actual story aside from fleshing out that the world is apparently chock full of dangerous magical beings who sit calmly around and do nothing despite being fully capable of ending the world at a moments notice.

So I'm asking Riot to...at least do something with the world. I would love to hear about the wars going on between Demacia and Noxus. I'd love to hear about what force is keeping Cho'gath at bay now that the institute isn't a thing anymore. Please, you have so many stories you could be telling, but you're choosing instead to start new threads about champions as they release, while leaving the old ones to stagnate.

Tldr; Lore is failing because Riot is choosing quantity over quality. They focus on exclusively the new champions, while the old stagnate. No stories have any kind of finality to them, or even an attempt at continuing any story. There are threads everywhere, but the weaver refuses to connect them.