I agree, I am not a big fan of that, it would be nice if there are no huge disruptions in the middle of the season. But they are being far too conservative in the offseason. Neither the item rework nor the drakes had much of any impact on the champions played in say mid in proplay.
So I disagree that the item rework was conservative nor that it had a low impact on pro champions. We saw a lot of shake-up especially early in the season. As for this season, it was intentional that we weren’t going as big in scope because of how large a preseason last year was.