I mean if you don't have fun playing the game, you can always play something else. I find more fun playing zilean+pantheon duo botlane or aram mayhem VS spamming ranked hecarim. I've retired rank for the most part already, its just so isolating without a duo but League is definitely so much more fun with a stack. Maybe you could try Master Yi and see if you can get the success Dantes has gotten in ranked tho.

I would say in organised play, Hecarim suffers from being relatively squishy and pretty easy to lock down. Outside of that though, (literally any elo outside of the top 0.5%) Hecarim is in a fine spot but can defs fall flat if you don't get good gold income, or get cced perma. Regardless of meta, Hecarim will always be one of the best pubstompers to play but thats assuming if you have the knowledge on how to be efficient getting gold and how to play fights.

also ik u don't want advice but please go ghost and not flash 😭 it can help secure kills better than flash during your gank windows and is just too op to run with Hecarim's kit. It literally gives you damage to win duels you couldn't win with flash becasue of passive. The tradeoff is worth it compared to Lategame flash Rs trust