User blog comment:NeonSpotlight/NeonSpotlight's anniversary AMA/@comment-28446509-20170103071540/@comment-3308937-20170104193222

I think it's unfortunate that we didn't get expanded lore on the summoners and stuff (one of my favorite lore pieces was J4's champion judgement) and it's also really weird for a major game company to kind of completely delete all their existing lore and start over from scratch so longer after the game's release, especially one with such an interesting perspective.

In the long run though I think it's been beneficial in terms of Riot really being able to go all out with their lore and not be restricted so heavily in terms of having to explain why a champion would want to join the league. It's given us better stories at the expense of really explaining why the game is the way it is which is a favorable tradeoff imo.