So just to be clear: People prefer the varied designs, there is no logical reason for them not to be present, but they're going to spend time and money retconning them to be inferior matches for the characterizations they've been given on the baseless excuse that "there was no art direction in the past", and you think this is a good thing?

Though if Heimerdinger's design is flawed, that implies the design of everyone prior to him is. Nasus' rework leaves him with no appeal, and Kat, Blitzcrank, Mundo, and Malphite all seem great as they are, but I guess they all need reworks because "there was no real art direction".