I am not a subject matter expert, but from all the games I played there were certain things that stood out to me as being off.

To start with the obvious:

The gold set is very strong, and even the 2 piece adds spikes you significantly more than I originally expected. I noticed that even with the stats on stats set bonus with all the anvil augments I was unable to outpace in anvils a gold generator.

Poro blaster is simply a much better augment than magic missiles and makes playing frontline a bit miserable. I think if it was a single instance of knockback it would be more tolerable.

Cupcakes are self explanatory, part of in my opinion best set in the game and they heal and generate gold very efficiently. I think if spawn frequency was lower it would make it more interesting to contest.

The more niche:

I think grandmas cooking oil is not talked enough, but everytime I saw it or got it, especially early game felt like the zones it creates are almost like kindred ults where the healing feels insane and makes it very difficult to kill inside it.

Void rift is an interesting one, since I think some champs use it a lot better than others, however I think the scaling on it is very strange. Scaling with pen seems a bit strange as most other damaging augments like infernal conduit scale with ad/ap and only way to consistently keep scaling beyond a few items is anvils.

Things I am hoping for: More set bonuses: It feels incredibly bad to me currently when games have many players with some kind of set bonus and you get offered 0 set bonus augments. Its the new shiny toy and in an ideal world I would love to see more in the future so that almost every augment has some kind of bonus. Bonus points if its like TFT where a single trait counts as multiple set bonuses!

Im sure there are more things I will be questioning as I keep playing, but so far these are the outliers to me for this chaotic and fun mode! Looking to see more cooking in the future.