User blog comment:SirAston/Thoughts and suggestions regarding Summoner Spells/@comment-8506165-20130809014416/@comment-9048637-20130810024134

Aston makes a fairly interesting suggestion: if you really are dead-set on having Flash at all points in the game (personally, I'd still favour the itemisation option, for reasons stated elsewhere, but nevertheless), then why not hard-code it, making it like Recall but with a cooldown? That would solve the problem of it crowding out other summoner spells, while still retaining its full utility. It would obviously lead to a few balance issues in the short term as some champions would likely benefit from this change more than others, but I doubt that's anything that a few tweaks and, in extreme situations, minor reworks couldn't fix. So, while I would still prefer to see the effect moved to item actives, I wouldn't be too upset with that fix.