User blog comment:Willbachbakal/(Summoner Spell Concept) Streamlining Summoner Spells/@comment-5035765-20161018010655/@comment-1330314-20161018013226

Generally, the more a champion tends towards burst, the less likely they are to succeed at jungling, since DPS is king for clearing, especially early on. The lack of Smite and presence of 4 teammates also means any burst champion on the team gets to be more valuable when taking on epic monsters, rather than just whoever has Smite. Since pure burst champions are currently the least useful against objectives, this could help them make more team contributions.

The point to wanting to remove Smite isn't that it's useless, it's that the spell is boring and ultimately responsible for a lot of convoluted systems all designed to make it less boring, i.e. jungle items and Smite buffs, neither of which are particularly interesting themselves. I think it would be much better if the spell just got taken out and the jungle were made to work without Smite.