A Writer can Write Him or Herself out of Anything

A writer can also actually write more than a few paragraphs of lore in a year.

We're getting neither quality nor quantity.

I was just thinking........ what an amazing interview question it would be to create a difficult imaginary situation, like the one where we have summoners and an institute of war and a rift, and to simply ask someone: how would you write yourself out of this conundrum? And I swear, a good writer will make it seem like the entire thing was planned 10 years in advance and it was a brilliant idea.

Depends on if you consider Deus ex Machinas to be acceptable means of "Writing your way out" of something.

While it's true that a writer can write themselves out of anything...it doesn't mean that their solution is believable. It has to fit with the game for it to be accepted.

Time travel is my solution. Zilean goes back in time before the league was created and somehow prevents it from forming, leading to a whole new "history"/alternate history.

Blame the retcon on a champion that creates nothingness, a void (create said champion) which engulfed the Institute of War, but who got defeated by a mysterious cosmic being wielding an egg, after which the IoW reappears.

At that point, hire a good writer and make it work as normal.

Retcon the retcon the retcon the retcon and blame it on Ouroboros, the cyclicality entity of the universe.

Doesn't mean it's going to be good writing though...

is it supposed to be the deep thought of the day or what

A smart writer wouldn't even be in a bad position in the first place.