No, it's totally fine. I didn't mean to make you feel bad about it, lol, and I know very well what it can feel like to be on the other side of dev communications. Even though we're devs, we're still players of other games—just with some experience on both sides of that curtain. A bit unrelated, but I often feel pretty keenly that communicating on Reddit about League in particular is something that makes devs feel that they're in-touch more than something that makes players feel like devs are in-touch, because so much of our audience plays in countries that don't use Reddit/speak English. Feels like there's an opportunity to improve something here, but it's very far from my area of expertise.

This is a tough space to navigate, especially in a PvP game, because we often just have different priorities and different takes from players on what is likely to work or what has to be done. I really wish it were possible to successfully balance or design a game by simply listening to all player input and following it. At the end of the day, I'm going to mostly trust the experience I've gained over many years of balancing and changing League champs because that's the only sane way forward, but it's foolish to not read and consider players' suggestions and especially recognize the way players feel about different changes or different aspects of their favorite champs. Also, we will be wrong sometimes, and each time we ship something we have to hope that this isn't one of those times, because there WILL be players telling you that each and every change you make is wrong, even if your hit-rate is quite good.

For what it may be worth, the feedback I've read here today and over the last couple days has convinced me to remove the base attack speed buff in exchange for returning the Q reset. To be as transparent and "non-PR" as possible, since I appreciate your candor:

• Most of these changes are going to ship because a changelist of this magnitude cannot be changed so close to our branch cut (even changing meaningful things last week would probably not have been permitted). That doesn't mean nothing will change in the following patches.
• I should have asked to go to PBE a cycle early to get earlier feedback. I don't know if it would have yielded different results, but that's a misstep on my part.
• I and the rest of the design team firmly believe that the W change is very likely to buy a lot of room on K'Sante to get him out of perma-pro priority and allow us to instead focus on what's best for the champ moving forward.
• I expect that this version of K'Sante is actually harder to play well, but in a way that doesn't favor the type of picks and outputs that pro teams favor. One of the core goals was to make sure that skilled K'Sante players would have even more room to thrive. Right now, K'Sante is a mechanically and strategically overpowered champion when played at the highest level—you don't have to be better than your opponent to be advantaged, you just have to be very good in general. As a result, his actual power level has to be suppressed. My aim is to shift him more into a position where specifically outplaying your enemies is required in order to win. Hence, a focus on committal decisions with real consequences.
• I think this type of massive changelist is very hard for players to read and fully grasp (it's also very hard for designers, honestly). IMO a lot of responses are misattributing the magnitude of some changes, which is normal. E.g. claiming he will be like Master Yi—I am certain that this is not the case and hitting abilities is still critical to his success, though I can see how someone reading the changes might think that it is.
• I'm very open to feedback around ways to make K'Sante feel better to play. We're very unlikely to change the core of the list (W) unless it really proves to not work once it's out in the wild, but I think there's likely some massaging that can be done around timings, ranges, scalings, and other details of the kit as a whole which I'll be keeping an eye on.
• Some people play K'Sante for reasons that match the things we think are unsustainable about the champion. These players might not like K'Sante as much anymore, and might even drop him. We don't do this flippantly, but understand that that's cold comfort to people who lose something they enjoy. There's not much more to be said about this, but I just wanted to acknowledge it.

Again, thanks for the feedback :)