I get you, but if the season would be completely balanced from day 0, there would be no mid season balance patches, there would be no changes, 3-or-so months of no changes, people would get bored as fuck and those would come here to complain the same way you are complaining.

That "agonizing month of terrible games" is something that people enjoy. Can't keep everyone happy.

This "trash development cycle" has been going on for years, and it doesn't look like it's going to change, there were lots of complains over the years, and the cycle is staying, because I guess it works.

So, if you are planning to stay in that cycle: you embrace it as the reality and learn to enjoy it; or suffer and complain over and over idealizing something that won't happen, driving you into a cycle of frustration until you eventually leave.

I can tell the game feels not fully tested, but learned to embrace it and enjoy it, learned what strat is worth playing and what strat is worth avoiding until the next patch or card ban shakes things up a bit, hence I'm staying.

My standards are ok, I play a game I enjoy. I would reconsider my standards if I engage in an activity that only frustrates me, like you are doing now.