What worries me about the idea of no IOT in league lore

So now that the shurima event is over is there just a short delay on the lore being update in game? cause now I have an idea about but they arn't the only characters involved and all of their lore is still only 2-3 sentences and honestly I look to lore to get about 30% of my how to play the champ feel cause that is something I love about league is I always feel like I am playing better when I am playing the character right thematically.

For example when I play WW I think of a man who has lost his mind to the beast and hunts down his pray and seeing them weak only makes him hungrier and then I just run around and nomnomnom and he hunts on the fields of justice because thats where he can hunt without repercussions

now I keep hearing that the lore is getting a complete overhaul and I am kinda sitting on the fence going OOOOooo where is this leading but at the same time I love the idea that the IOT was made to stop wars that wiped the land clean and it makes sense as to why all these amazing characters are running around fighting.

I am just scared that all the characters are just going to suddenly not have a reason to fight and the only reason they are fighting is because I am a summoner and they just have to obey me. I don't want to feel like a puppeteer I want to feel like I am working in tandem with to stalk the prey and we earn the trophy together not, "I did it using this blank faced puppet who happens to have skills qwer and they do things. Yay me." I just want a lore that I am bonding with my champ instinctively rather I pull out monster a to defeat monster e. I don't want a trading card game in theory I want a Summoning ritual where I go in cause I want to hunt or because I want to laugh as the enemy realises they don't do jack to me or feel the terror I inspire with an apc or adc. cause I feel the current lore ties the game together thematically

like before when they entered the fields of justice and fought they knew they were facing an enemy for a cause and its obvious you were done with the IOT with gnar cause he literally just kinda ran into rengar one day ... woooo ... -_-.
I mean as funny and character defining as it was it said nothing about who he is or why he is fighting AT ALL in the league

I don't want a series of faces I want warriors with causes

so just give me a reason I am playing this game other than I like the gameplay cause I can switch to a game that pulls me in thematically as well and has the same gameplay league of legends is my favorite game right now because its not just a game against some people online thats fun its because for an hour at a time I ME MYSELF can be the terror of the void fighting the might of Demacia and its not just redeyeobi vs 92Slaanesh

Me vs you is boring if its just masks

But the Glorious Executioner vs The plague rat is amazing

The the man who awoke at the bottom of the sea and has made a deal with powerful magicians to track down his friends that abandoned him to die in return for using his newfound strength in combat Vs A living nightmare that has been trapped and forced into combat with the threat of it escaping lingering in the backs of everybody's minds as they fight is Legendary and why I play this game.

Don't take that away from us