Summoner's Rift Visual Update - Opinions?

While I agree that this change makes it easier to navigate both dimensionally and visually, I think in attempting to make things more simplistic in functionality, it has also become so visually, sacrificing an initial impact that has become so akin to League Legends.

The entire map itself - more noticeably within each each lane - has become too smoothed over, and is no longer visually intriguing. I think that simply adding back some of those textures to the new structures would vastly improve the cohesiveness of the experience players have with the new map, and allow them to better accept it (i.e. rock structures and runic vegetation such as the glowing vines found on various surfaces of the previous Summoner's Rift).

That being said, I understand how texturization could be the first thing to go in the ongoing quest of improving compatibility among the spectrum of players' high or low end hardware.

What's your technical opinion? Feel free to vote and/or discuss below!