Agreed. Every single season I say, "This is awful, but it's okay because this is rock bottom - it can't get any worse." And then the new season comes around and, of course, it's worse. This season is horrible. And that's coming from a Valk main. I hate it. I hate everything they've done over the last five or six or seven seasons. And I STILL keep thinking, "This is unsustainable and they'll have to reverse course soon." Then they double down on whatever idiocy it was I was thinking of. It's insane.
The entire concept of legend balance is so far in the past now I almost can't remember what it was like to play the game when I knew what to expect from enemies and motion legends were something unique instead of every single legend on the field. LTM **bleep** shows continue unabated, and Wildcard, the one I played the most, is by far the worst. Take all the motion insanity we already have and then add speed boost and wall running. Not sure who thought that was a good idea, but it could only have been someone who plays with an aimbot. Fixed drops in ranked? I don't give a rat's **bleep** if it produces better distribution. You want better distribution? Then engineer it into the system instead of forcing everyone in the game into a homogenous play style. I'm not a pro or a streamer or a cheater and I think it's some pretty big balls on the part of the dev to expect normal players, the VAST MAJORITY of players, to do it the way they're told to do it instead of the way they want to do it. Honestly, it's infuriating. And I don't even know why. It isn't as if I EVER played much ranked at all. It just galls me on principle, I guess. And then there is the ongoing firestorm of cheaters and smurfs. It used to be that a legitimate average player was fairly well protected from cheaters, but now they all use secondaries to get at whoever is left that doesn't cheat. It's tragic. And if I was the dev I would find it embarrassing. But I suppose as long as they can keep cashing the checks....