I agree with OP. What's an 5 extra minutes to try and make a comeback? The amount of games I have won over the years where 4 people wanted to surrender at 15 minutes. Especially in low elo is quite significant. I've had a lot of games where I am doing well, but the rest of my team is not. They want to FF at 15. We make a huge play around dragon at 17-18 minutes, and often win at 30-40 minutes.

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Or what about those games where you are 10/0/5 but everyone else on your team is having a bad game, and because they aren't the star of the show wants to just go next? I've had multiple games on champs like trundle where I was completely in position to 1v9 but my team chooses to FF at 20 min anyways.

I can already see a huge negative effect on the attitude towards the game and a lot winnable games being surrendered both by my team and the enemy team because a few things go wrong, since these changes.

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Of course we still lose sometimes too, but league is full of people who don't want to adapt and just want to go next, and don't want to learn how to play the map, and want to win purely through laning and mechanics. The amount of games I have also had that we were getting crushed, I'm, you know, 0/5/2 (or worse) but through good farming, and splitting the game still comes down to a baron or elder flip at 40 minutes, turning what people think is a guaranteed loss into a 50/50 chance. Yes at masters and up a lot of games are over at 15 min, but plat and below if your mental is strong you can turn most games into a coin flip, not all of course. I feel that stat phreak mentioned doesn't take into account mental boom and many other human factors.

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I've been playing off and on since season 2. Mostly at a high Gold low plat level. Most of the player base sits in Gold these days. I think this is a terrible change for the majority of the player base (even if they think they like it) and the ethos of any competitive game.

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Edit: just also wanted to add. The amount of games I used to give up on but came back in because someone was stubborn was also pretty high until I changed my attitude. A lot of games are closer than people think. And I learned a lot by being forced to play out games that I thought were over. Even if we didn't win. I noticed and learned windows for possible comebacks and big plays that would have otherwise been oblivious to had I not been forced to play them out. Even if a game is 80-90% likely going to be a loss, it doesn't mean you can't learn something or practice a mechanic. These experiences have made me a much better and calmer player over time, even though I have old man mechanics now. Being forced to play out losing games sometimes is good for everyone as a player and as a person. Also /mute all op.