Unpopular Opinion. TFT feels empty without growth.

My first game of TFT was super frustrating, then my next one I did so good! then I did a bunch of research. Then I did bad, then slightly better, and now I am learning and increasing my win rates... I saw these people with fancy critter avitars and I thought "Oh! If I get god I can earn one of those too!". However, as far as I can tell, I don't earn anything for any of my games, and to be honest, some of them are quite a grind...

It's not league of legends. Infact the better you are at LoL the more misleading the champions are. Early in my TFT experience I put a shen in my back line to protect against assassins. In League, if shen stays by your adc and Kha tries to jump them, he gets dashed, then his attacks get interupted. In TFT my adc gets killed, then my shen gets killed... Late game Vayne in TFT.... is a champ you should have probably replaced by a level 1 MF or Kayle...

It's awkward... but thats fine! It's fun! This weekend I had to travel! and I didn't have much room for luggage, so I brought a laptop and connected it to the AirBnB wifi and I knew with a shoddy connection and no mouse, LoL was out of the question, but luckily I could still TFT! Unfortunately after several games where, because of frame loss or lag, I failed to play the "grab a champ from the circle" game, I found myself frustrated yet again.

Why are you making a WC3 mod style game into a perminant game mode... It's like if you had made ARAM on summoners rift, but if you tried to leave middle it teleported you back to the middle lane... (Infact that is exactly what happens when you try to leave your circle during "grab a champ from the circle" minigame)

and to be honest, the sad part is that I would probably forgive all of this crap if I could just slowly get a new avitar by gaining points for playing/winning games.. but instead, as far as I can tell, you just buy them...