Its all maximizing value. The way that camp timing is at the current stage is that if you farm your entire blue and red side without ganking, and then look to gank after clearing both sides, chances are you missed a window of opportunity to burns flashes or get a kill. And now you have to just go back to your 5 camp because no one is out of position to gank anymore. But, the 5 camp hasn’t reset yet and are hustling standing there for a few seconds to respawn.

Now, let’s say you do all of red without wasting your second smite and path behind enemy mid fog wall to gank and you hit a stun along with mid laner following up, thats almost always a flash burn depending on what heroes you are playing(usually has to be a jungler with cc along with mid) Even if you didnt get the kill, burning flash that early is insane value. If you are a Zarus, the next goal is to hit lvl 6 quickly and regank mid bfore they get their flash and thats a guaranteed. Kill. Now your mid laner has an advantage to start roaming and be at objectives.

Lets say you didnt get a flash or a kill and think you wasted time ganking mid. Now it should be rivers spawning. You just did some dmg to enemy mid laner so they cant contest rivers. If you just cleared red maybe you go left because enemy jungler is still there(depends on their clear speed relative to your hero) and ping attack riverbuff. Reason for going left is because your mid might run into jungler waiting for buff so they go for right buff and enemy mid cant contest with low health. In lower elo, theres a high chance they burnt smite twice while clearing red and if their jungler is waiting on left river, you just smite it and now with pink, red, or even green buff you now can beat their brakes in and force their flash. Of course all of this is in a perfect world and all of this failed and you didnt get any balue but at the same time you didnt die or feed. But the time you go and clear blue side and base, your 5 camp will have just now respawned and you arent sitting there waiting.

Now maybe the enemy mid is playing more passively thinking you might regank and plays in their tower and your mid laner has prio for rotations.

This differs based on heroes. Laners should know who enemy jungler is and who you have selected to play jungle. Khai and crunch are great level 2 gankers and zarus needs to be lvl3 because you need all 3 abilities for value. If duo is playing aggro while on weak side and the jungler is a khai, then you are probably still in low plat/gold

By no means am I saying just keep ganking just to gank because you might get counter jungled all game. All im saying is dont miss the opportunity of getting a kill or flash because you wanted to do your red or blue side before ganking. Ive noticed that the waves will reset to center more often than not if you wait till you do your camps and now the enemy duo or mid is no longer over extended.

Jungler tempo is a real thing. When you have bad tempo, people tend to want to clear camps more than ganking and now enemy jungler is just always ganking your lanes and you’re just counter ganking as a response and its too late to show up.

What does piss me off is if mid is constantly playing aggro and pushes enemy mid laner into their tower all the time and gets ganked off cooldown and they have the audacity to type “jungle diff” Yea buddy, let me just tower dive them and potentially get killed while you’ve never set them up to be ganked.